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The fire ignited Jan. 16, burned for five days and ultimately destroyed an estimated 80% of the batteries inside the building, which is on the coast about 18 miles north of the city of Monterey.
All North Monterey County Unified School District schools and offices were closed on Friday due to the ongoing fire at the battery plant, ... from the North Monterey County Fire District after a ...
A view of flames and giant smoke over the sky as a fire erupted at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday that located on Pacific Coast Highway in Moss Landing of Monterey Bay, CA, Jan. 17, 2025.
Monterey County Sheriff Tina Nieto said air quality monitoring systems had not detected any hazardous gases in the air. Watson said two “overheating events” happened at the battery plant in 2021 and 2022 because the batteries got wet. A third incident happened in 2022 in the neighboring Elkhorn battery plant that is owned by PG&E, he said.
The fire at Vistra Corp.’s Moss Landing plant along Monterey Bay — south of Santa Cruz and far from the Los Angeles wildfires — was first reported around 3 p.m. Thursday and exploded out of ...
The fire that started Thursday at the Vistra Energy battery plant in Moss Landing, roughly 80 miles (about 130 kilometers) south of San Francisco, led to 1,700 people evacuating, closed part of Highway 1 and generated huge flames and significant amounts of smoke. The cause is under investigation.
When a massive fire erupted at one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities in Monterey County, it didn't just send a toxic plume of smoke over nearby communities — it cast ...
A view of flames at Moss Landing Power Plant that located on Pacific Coast Highway in Moss Landing of Monterey Bay, California, U.S., on Jan. 17, 2025. Credit - Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu—Getty Images