The county of monterey board of supervisors held an emergency meeting and media conference over the moss landing battery plant fire friday morning. Fire blazed thursday night at the vistra power plants battery storage facility in moss landing in northern monterey county. Highway 1 was closed and evacuations were ordered in.
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Moss Landing Fire
An earlier version of this article said the moss landing power plant fire was reported friday afternoon. it was reported thursday afternoon. Fire crews were battling the blaze at the moss landing power plant, which serves as a battery storage site, a spokesperson for the monterey county sheriffs office told cnn. (ap) a major fire burning friday at one of the worlds largest battery storage plants in northern california is sending up flames of toxic smoke,. Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate and part of highway 1 in northern california was closed early friday after a major fire erupted at one of.