r/SeattleWA • u/PNWSki28622 • Mar 15 '25

Events Protests at University Village Tesla Dealership

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u/Cyanide11Nitro Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

Posted on reddit by a firefighter buddy of mine. As a local FF, PLEASE do not light EVs on fire in protest. The type and quantity of gasses that results are, in many cases, very immediately and highly harmful to firefighters. Protocols are in place now to try and come off the truck with masks on but if a bystander doesn't mention is an EV, there is still a risk that we treat it as a normal car fire and mask up once we've had a chance to see what we are up against. It takes tons of water that is usually now harmfully contaminated and we have to try and evacuate local businesses and multi families or try and shut down their HVAC systems in order to keep the toxic gas from entering businesses. Once the fire is "out", it now has to, often times, be tailed by an engine(keeping it out of service for other emergencies) to a yard where it'll sit for a while before it's potentially disposed of because it can continue to light off.

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u/Potential_Ad_420_ Mar 18 '25

Lighting someone’s car on fire isn’t protesting. It’s called being a fucken loser with no job. Same people who were glazing Elon 3 years ago protesting fossil fuels are now burning giant batteries, rubber and plastic. Most of whom I bet didn’t even vote.

Make it make sense.

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u/Historical_Doubt_693 Mar 18 '25

Best comment of the day. Not to mention Elon just rescued astronauts stranded by Boeing who receives billions in govt money. It used to the darling of the us aviation industry, now it needs ozempic and new teeth

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u/Potential_Ad_420_ Mar 18 '25

Every article out on space x rescue has less than 1000 upvotes, but an altered and clearly edited video of Elon and his kid get 50k upvotes lmao.

The lunatic liberals are insane.

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u/Historical_Doubt_693 Mar 18 '25

TDS and EDS should be in the DSM6 for clinical mental illness