"When failure is triggered, Li batteries can enter 'thermal runaway'—an uncontrollable, self-heating state marked by the release of toxic gases and rapid conflagration that can lead to explosions. Complexity+intensity of lithium-ion battery fires make them a formidable challenge to extinguish"
More in the article, seems to be PR effort to promote tesla cars as exceptionally life; leveraging the event for positive PR
Public transit is all I care about rn