01-17-2025, 09:45 AM
(01-16-2025, 09:43 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Srsly? WTF?
Quote:evacuation orders in Monterey County
KTVU
Thu, January 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM GMT-7
Monterey County sent out an emergency alert system warning Thursday evening to say the North County Fire Department is responding to a fire at Moss Landing Power Plant. A battery storage facility has caught fire. Some areas are under evacuation orders, officials said.
From the pix I've seen on FB from new reports, the flames are as high as the old Power Plant smoke stacks. The batteries are probably in thermal runaway and the firefighters can't do anything. It is the largest battery "plant" in the world. They had a fire there in 2022, IIRC. Very toxic. Locating on the edge of a Marine Sanctuary and a natural preserve seems like a bad idea.
They decommissioned the old power plant and for the last year have been demolishing all the buildings and equipment around the old stacks.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/fire-moss-l...a/63456595
--tg