Another battery fire erupts at Moss Landing, where some units are still charged

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Set us as preferred Almost two years after a massive battery fire in Monterey County displaced 1,200 people and smoldered for days, spewing toxic gas into the air, the same facility is burning again.Fire crews responded to a structure fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant, owned by Vistra Corp., around 6:15 a.m.Friday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.Officials advised residents in zones nearby to shelter-in-place until further notice, with windows and doors closed and air conditioning systems turned off.

Shelter-in-place orders for several areas were lifted around 10:30 a.m., but remained in place for one zone.The building in question had been damaged in a fire at Moss Landing in January 2025, and Friday’s fire involved batteries that remain charged inside while the building had been taken off the grid, Cal Fire Public Information Officer Josh Silveira said.The facility was evacuated and no civilians or fire personal were injured in the fire response.

Fire officials on a noon press call said the fire was much smaller in scale and complexity than last year’s and was no longer actively burning, but that conditions could change.“At this particular point in the incident, there is no active fire,” North Monterey County Fire Protection District Chief Jess Cortez said on the call.“It is hot, smoldering at this particular point, but the incident is still within a scope that it could decrease or continue going.” Officials from the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency and the Monterey Bay Air Resources District said on the noon call they were monitoring for particulate matter pollution, known as PM 2.5, and hydrogen flouride, but had not detected levels exceeding health screening levels.“There’s a few [sensors] that have edged into moderate air quality, but we expect those probab...