2 days ago · The plant is one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities. The fire at the Moss Landing Vistra Power Plant, located about 90 miles south of San Francisco, broke out on January ...

1 day ago · The Elkhorn Slough Reserve was closed to the public from Jan. 17 to Jan. 21 while it and residential areas near the power plant were under evacuation orders due to the fire. It is now open to ...

2 days ago · Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists from San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories following a recent fire ...

3 days ago · The dramatic fire at the 750-megawatt battery plant began on Jan. 16 and burned for two days. It caused the evacuation of 1,200 local residents and the closure of Highway 1 for three days.

1 day ago · Researchers have found unusually high concentrations of toxic heavy metals in surface soils at Elkhorn Slough Reserve in Moss Landing. Nearly two weeks after a lithium-ion battery fire broke out just a few miles from Elkhorn Slough, a group at San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories found levels of nickel, manganese, and cobalt that were hundreds to 1,000 times higher ...

The Reserve was closed from January 17-21 due to the evacuation order and subsequent potential health risks from a fire at the Moss Landing Battery Storage Plant that started on January 16. Elkhorn Road will be closed north of Elkhorn Slough Reserve and Kirby Park from 1/13/25 until 2/14/25.

3 days ago · In the days following the Vistra Power Plant's lithium-ion battery storage facility fire, a dramatic increase in marsh soil surface concentration of three heavy metals, Nickel, Manganese and ...

Jan 22, 2025 · With the possible exposure to toxic chemicals, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office started evacuating residents in the Prunedale and Elkhorn area, just east and north of the fire. The fire is...

Jan 17, 2025 · The fire at the Vistra power plant’s battery storage facility in Moss Landing is reflected in Elkhorn Slough as law enforcement patrols on Highway 1 Thursday night. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Around 1,500 people were instructed to leave Moss Landing and the Elkhorn Slough area. Evacuations were lifted Friday night for people near an ongoing fire that erupted Thursday at one of the...