BYD (比亚迪) says Pingshan campus garage fire extinguished; no casualties, local fire bureau reports

What happened

Shenzhen Pingshan District (深圳坪山区) emergency services responded to a fire at a multi-storey parking garage on BYD’s (比亚迪) Pingshan campus early on April 14. The Pingshan District Fire Rescue Bureau said the blaze began at 02:48 in a decked parking structure on Maluan Street (马峦街道), and city and district emergency and firefighting teams quickly extinguished the fire. There were no injuries, the bureau reported.

BYD told IT Home that the affected garage is used exclusively for test and scrapped vehicles (试验及报废车辆专用停放区). The company confirmed the fire has been put out and reiterated that there were no personnel casualties.

Context and implications

Rumors reportedly circulated online earlier about a wider factory blaze, prompting the official notice. BYD is China’s largest electric-vehicle manufacturer and a major global exporter, with significant manufacturing capacity in Shenzhen; safety incidents at such sites attract attention beyond local media. Could a localized garage fire affect supply chains or investor confidence? Probably not in this case, given the confined nature and lack of injuries, but any operational disruption to a firm of BYD’s scale is watched closely amid heightened geopolitical scrutiny of Chinese tech and auto exporters.

Authorities and BYD have not released further detail beyond the initial notifications. The Pingshan bureau’s statement and BYD’s response constitute the main official accounts to date.