Large Fire at California Battery Plant Prompts Evacuations
One of the world's largest battery storage facilities in Northern California, a place called Moss Landing, is on fire since Thursday. On Friday morning so far, it continues to rage having forced evacuations of some 1,700 people as well as shuttering one of the main highways through the area. The poisonous smoke from this fire has even posed dangers in the surrounding areas.
The fire broke out at the Moss Landing Power Plant, which lies about 77 miles south of San Francisco. This is owned by a Texas-based corporation known as Vistra Energy, which comprises of tens of thousands of lithium-ion batteries used in storing energy supplied by solar panels and other means of renewable energy. Once this type of a battery catches on fire, there is no viable way to knock it out by using traditional types of firefighting chemicals.
Fire crews were only waiting for the fire to burn itself out, not fighting it. "It hasn't sp
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