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Officers tried to get into the vehicle to save the driver, but "due to the intensity of the flames and heat, they were unable to rescue the occupant," the department said.

The spontaneous combustion of faulty Tesla lithium-ion batteries caused a large, early morning fire at two car dealerships in Palo Alto last August, according to two recently released fire ...