Electric Vehicle Fire in Walnut Creek Parking Garage Prompts 2-Alarm Response

Electric Vehicle Fire Extinguished In Walnut Creek Parking Garage

Crews extinguished a car fire in a parking garage in Walnut Creek on Wednesday evening and vapors from the fire prompted the county to issue a shelter-in-place for people near the garage. The two-alarm blaze occurred around 5 p.m. in an underground garage at 2121 North California Blvd. after an electric vehicle caught fire, The Contra Costa Fire Protection District said. It was a plug-in hybrid that was charging before the blaze ignited. At 6:33…

Electric Vehicle Burning In Underground Garage Prompts Shelter In Place Order Wednesday

A burning electric vehicle re-charging at an underground parking garage caught fire and burned Wednesday, prompting evacuations, a second alarm to help battle the fire, a Shelter in Place order from city officials to nearby residents and a rare decontamination order for firefighters assigned to the blaze. The fire was reported minutes before 5 p.m. in the third floor underground parking level at 2121 N. California, quickly upgrading to the secon…

Electric vehicle fire in Walnut Creek parking garage prompts 2-alarm response

By Jose Fabian Contra Costa Fire Protection District crews responded to an electric vehicle fire in Walnut Creek on Wednesday. Around 5:20 p.m., crews went to 2121 North California Boulevard for a report of a fire inside the underground parking garage of a building. Con Fire said they called a second alarm for the electric vehicle fire and asked people to avoid the area.  By 6:30 p.m., Con Fire said crews had knocked down the fire, and they said…