Re: 1 dead, 7 injured after Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel

In <[email protected]> Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
>
> LAS VEGAS (AP) — One person died and seven others were injured Wednesday
> when a Tesla Cybertruck that appeared to be carrying fireworks caught fire
> and exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel,
> authorities said.
>
> Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials
> told a news conference that a person died inside the futuristic-looking
> pickup truck and they were working to get the body out. Seven people
> nearby had minor injuries and several were taken to a hospital.
>
> The fire in the valet area of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas was
> reported at 8:40 a.m., a county spokesperson said in a statement.
>
> According to a law enforcement official, the truck was rented via the Turo
> app and appeared to have a load of fireworks. The official spoke on
> condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
>
> A Turo spokesperson did not immediately respond to an emailed request for
> comment.
>
> Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday afternoon on X that "we have now
> confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a
> bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck and is unrelated to the
> vehicle itself. All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the
> explosion."
>
> "The whole Tesla senior team is investigating this matter right now," Musk
> said in an earlier post on the platform after attending a New Year's Eve
> party at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. "We've never seen anything like this."
>
> Law enforcement officials have not ruled out terrorism as a possible
> motive, a person familiar with the matter said. The person spoke on
> condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly
> discuss details of the investigation.
>
> "I know you have a lot of questions," Jeremy Schwartz, acting special
> agent in charge for the FBI's Las Vegas office, told reporters. "We don't
> have a lot of answers."
>
> President Joe Biden was briefed on the explosion. The truck explosion came
> hours after a driver rammed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans' famed
> French Quarter early on New Year's Day, killing at least 15 people before
> being shot to death by police. That crash was being investigated as a
> terrorist attack and police believe the driver was not acting alone.
>
> In Las Vegas, witness Ana Bruce, visiting from Brazil, said she heard
> three explosions.
>
> "The first one where we saw the fire, the second one, I guess, was the
> battery or something like that, and the third was the big one that smoked
> the entire area and was the moment when everyone was told to evacuate and
> stay away," Bruce said.
>
> Her travel companion, Alcides Antunes, showed video he took of flames
> lapping the sides of the silver-colored vehicle.
>
> The 64-story hotel is just off the Las Vegas Strip and across the street
> from the Fashion Show Las Vegas shopping mall.
>
> Eric Trump, a son of the president-elect and executive vice president of
> the Trump Organization, posted about the fire on the social media platform
> X. He praised the fire department and local law enforcement "for their
> swift response and professionalism."
>
> https://www.npr.org/2025/01/01/nx-s1-5245215/tesla-truck-explosion-trump-
> las-vegas-hotel

Of course this is Elon Musk's fault, because the Tesla was available for rent.