Ford Expedition might have induced the Secret Service Hertz rental fireplace

It is trying like a Ford Expedition might have been the reason for a hearth amongst Hertz automobiles rented by the Secret Service throughout President Biden’s latest Nantucket go to over Thanksgiving. 

A number of media stories say the fireplace, which concerned 5 automobiles, seems to have first ignited in a white Ford Expedition. No less than that is the main target for investigators, who haven’t but provided an official willpower. Native officers have mentioned the fireplace was not suspicious.

2021 Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators had been topic to an pressing recall in Might for an issue with the battery junction field. Ford mentioned on the time the issue carried a hearth danger, and suggested homeowners to park the SUVs outdoors and away from constructions or different automobiles. Ford devised a repair for the issue in July and mentioned it may have all recalled automobiles repaired by September.

That, in fact, depends on homeowners (or rental automobile firms) truly getting the automobiles in for the restore. It is unclear but whether or not the Expedition in query bought into the store. Hertz advised Automotive Information, “We are able to affirm {that a} fireplace involving our automobiles occurred early the morning of Nov. 28, on the rental automobile overflow lot at Nantucket Memorial Airport. Happily, nobody was injured. We’re working with the native authorities on their investigation.”

A big automobile fireplace involving a number of rental automobiles at Nantucket Memorial Airport is now out. There have been no accidents reported however at the least 4 vehicles sustained important harm. #nantucket pic.twitter.com/VF7Zh7qoot

— Nantucket Present (@ACKCurrent)
November 28, 2022

The Secret Service additionally launched a press release Thursday:

“The Secret Service had rented the automobiles for the President’s journey and dropped the SUVs off at HERTZ on Sunday evening. We had been made conscious of 1 Ford SUV catching fireplace early Monday morning. That SUV was parked subsequent to a number of different automobiles which additionally caught fireplace due to the proximity to the Ford SUV.

“We had no points after we drove the automobiles and so they had been returned with out incident. The Ford SUV that caught fireplace was a Secret Service assist car and never used to move any protectees. We stay up for following up with native fireplace authorities on their overview of the incident.”

The vehicles rented by Biden’s element additionally included a Chevy Suburban, a Ford Explorer, a Jeep Gladiator, and an Infiniti QX80.