 WDEL Newstime now is 545. Also today, fire departments large and small dealing with a new challenge. How to put out fires involving electric vehicles and how to dispose of the batteries. Here's Christopher Cruz. Recently in Naples, Maine, the driver of a Tesla was speeding when he hit a tree. His car caught on fire. Fire Chief Justin Cox says when his crews came onto the scene and saw it was an electric car that was on fire, that changed the dynamics of the situation.