Investigators imagine {that a} fireplace at Nantucket Airport, which destroyed 5 autos rented to President Joe Biden’s secret service staff, might have began in an SUV that was topic to a security recall, in line with a report by the Nantucket Present.

The blaze at Nantucket Airport began lower than 24 hours after Biden’s secret service staff returned the rental autos to Hertz, says the report. On Monday morning, the hearth shut down the airport briefly after it unfold inside 40 toes of the airport’s jet gasoline tanks.

Nobody was injured, and an investigation has decided that the blaze wasn’t suspicious, in line with Nantucket Fireplace Chief Michael Cranson.

Whereas the official trigger remains to be beneath investigation, officers are a Ford Expedition SUV because the supply of the hearth, in line with the report. The automobile was beneath a security recall by Ford because of a defective battery junction field that has triggered different fires. The Expedition had been scheduled for service for the recall, nevertheless it hadn’t been repaired.

The 5 autos had been rented to secret service brokers who had been offering safety for President Biden and his household throughout their annual Thanksgiving go to to Nantucket.

The Nantucket Airport mentioned that it’s “presently coordinating with rental automobile companies and company companions to make sure scene security.”