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Huge fire at Moss Landing battery plant spurs evacuations, road closures, sends out plumes of toxic smoke


The blaze broke out late Thursday at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants.

MOSS LANDING — A major fire at a lithium battery storage plant flared up again early Friday afternoon after authorities said it smoldered most of the morning. The blaze continued to send smoke over the community of Moss Landing and the Elkhorn Slough area in northern Monterey County on Friday, but firefighters sounded a note of optimism. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) A fire rages out of control at the Vistra battery storage plant, one of the world’s largest, in Moss Landing, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

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