UPDATE: Moss Landing Battery Storage Facility Reignites a Month after First Fire
Officials advise residents to close doors, windows
Dear Readers, quick update after our last post below:
Moss Landing Battery Storage Facility Reignites
Updated: 11:25 PM PST Feb 18, 2025
MOSS LANDING, Calif. —
The County of Monterey has sent out an alert to residents that smoke was seen coming from the Moss Landing area on Tuesday evening. North Monterey County firefighters say that a group of batteries smoldered and reignited.
The alert sent at around 8:40 p.m. reads, "Light smoke observed at Vistra Battery Facility North County Fire is on scene investigating what appears to be smoke coming from the previously burned area within the Vistra Moss Landing lithium-ion battery facility."
A second alert was sent at 10 p.m. saying that public safety agencies are in unified command due to the light smoke. Community air particulate matter and metals monitoring is currently ongoing.
"Out of an abundance of caution, safety agencies urge residents to close windows and doors overnight. Updates will be forthcoming," said the county.
Chief Juan Mendoza with North Monterey County Fire says that a group of batteries reignited. The new fire is burning in the part of the facility that burned earlier in the year and has not gotten into the undamaged area.
The new fire is considerably smaller than the one in January.
This fire comes a little over a month after the Vista battery facility first caught fire in the year resulting in over 70% of the facility being destroyed.
What’s going on with California? In the 60’s it was a bastion of freedom and reasonable governance, with some of most beautiful landscapes in the world. Now it’s a man-made dumpster fire, with years of counterproductive policies on illegal immigration, CO2 doomsday scam, soft on crime because “racism”, ignoring water storage, paying homeless mentally ill/addicts that incentivized homelessness, high taxes and exit taxes.
this story should be raised at every effort to explain that wind and solar with battery backup is cleaner, safer and cheaper than any other form of energy. Let them explain this