STAMFORD, CT — It took firefighters over 40 minutes and thousands of gallons of water to extinguish a car fire that erupted in a Tesla on Thursday morning in Stamford, fire officials said.

No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation by the Stamford Fire Marshal's Office.

At approximately 11:18 a.m. on Thursday, dispatch received several calls about a car fire behind the Blue Ginger restaurant on East Main Street near Courtland Avenue.

Fourteen firefighters initially responded in a few minutes, and a battery-powered Tesla was found in the parking lot, heavily engulfed in flames, the SFD said. Officials did not say what model Tesla was involved.

"The vehicle was several car lengths away from other vehicles and posed no immediate danger to them," the SFD said in a news release. "Electric vehicle fires have been in the news frequently due to the difficulty many departments are having extinguishing them."

Firefighters began pouring 200 gallons of water per minute onto and into the Tesla, before they eventually upped it to 600 gallons per minute.

After about 42 minutes, the flames were extinguished, the SFD said.

"A normal car fire usually requires no more than a single hose line," Deputy Chief Eric Lorenz, the incident commander for the fire, said in a news release. "But we know from other fire departments’ experiences that large amounts of water are the only solution when compared to a traditional vehicle fire."

There have been concerns over fires in electric vehicles.

Last December, General Motors recalled 141,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric cars after batteries started to spontaneously combust, according to the Washington Post.

According to fire officers on the scene, this fire may have been relatively easy to put out compared to some others across the nation because the entire bank of batteries dropped on the ground underneath the vehicle, where firefighters were focusing their fire attack.

The Stamford Fire Haz Mat Team, Fairfield County Haz Mat Team, Stamford EMS, Stamford Police, and several additional divisions of the fire department all responded and assisted in the incident.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Stamford Fire Haz Mat Team, and a hazardous waste cleanup company remained at the scene for most of Thursday.

"This is no routine car fire," Lorenz said. "It requires special handling."

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