Frontier 10/5/24 hard landing, gear fire, no injuries

Must have been one hard landing to cause a fire. No injuries and didn’t deploy the evac shutes.
 
I have no idea how a hard landing would cause a fire.

You would expect, especially at LAS, that it was hot brakes leading to a brake fire but that takes several minutes before the fire starts. Temperature peaks after about 15 minutes.

My only guess is that one tire failed and the metal on pavement cased it but I don't really see that in the short video.
 
Based on audio, flight crew was in O2 masks long before the landing due to smoke in cockpit. It would be odd if what appears to be a post-landing landing gear fire is related to the smoke in the cockpit, other than the desire to quickly get the aircraft on the ground resulted in an inadvertent hard landing with tire failure.
 
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