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Tesla Megapack battery fire burns for hours at Boulder City solar facility

S3 · 09/23
2025 · 18:57 · Tesla Energy · Boulder City, NV, USA

Record

Company	Tesla Energy
Category	energy storage
Type	fire
Date	09/23 2025
Time of day	18:57
Location	Boulder City, NV, USA
Severity	S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale	-
Confidence	medium
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	KTNV

What happened

Tesla Megapack lithium battery storage units caught fire at a solar/battery storage facility near Boulder City, NV, burning for hours and prompting a multi-agency fire response; no injuries reported.

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