Smoke and flames are seen from Castroville as a fire at the Vistra battery storage plant burns in Moss Landing, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) ...

Glenn Church, Monterey County Supervisorial District 2, talks about the fire at the battery storage facility in Moss Landing during a press conference in Castroville, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

MOSS LANDING, Calif. — 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 the world's largest ...

Glenn Church, Monterey County Supervisorial District 2, talks about the fire at the battery storage facility in Moss Landing during a press conference in Castroville, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

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A fire broke out at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility in Central California Thursday. The battery power plant is the largest in the world according to the company, Vistra, that owns it.

Moss Landing fire: One of the world’s largest battery factories ablaze. Concerns have grown about the air quality near California’s Moss Landing Power Plant after last night’s fire ...

A fire has broken out at a battery storage facility adjacent to the gas-fueled Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, California, and locals are urged to shut down air systems and close ...

But now, after a massive fire last month at one of the largest battery storage plants in the world — Moss Landing in Monterey County — caused the evacuation of 1,200 people, closed Highway 1 ...