Hybrid vehicle blanketed in Surprise fire to prevent reignitied [Video]

The home, near Greenway and Dysart Roads, was destroyed by the fire.

“I heard a big boom,” Susana Torres, a neighbor, said.

Neighbors told 12News they heard what sounded like fireworks going off around 8 p.m.

“The flames were really high up, just bright, bright flames,” Torres said.

Surprise Fire Battalion Chief Larry Subervi said when firefighters first arrived on the scene, a majority of the flames were coming from the garage where a hybrid car was parked.

Subervi doesn’t know yet if the car started the fire but said the fire likely started in the garage.

“Even if the vehicle isn’t the ignition source, once a lithium-ion vehicle, electric vehicle is on fire, those batteries involved, there’s an additional threat there,” Subervi said.

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