Smoke and flames are seen from Castroville as a fire at the Vistra battery storage plant burns in Moss Landing, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) ...

MOSS LANDING, Calif. — Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate and part of Highway 1 in Northern California was closed early Friday after a major fire erupted at one of the world's largest ...

Structure demolition at the site of the Moss Landing battery fire could begin this month, and owner Vistra Energy will be ...

Glenn Church, Monterey County Supervisorial District 2, talks about the fire at the battery storage facility in Moss Landing during a press conference in Castroville, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

Glenn Church, Monterey County Supervisorial District 2, talks about the fire at the battery storage facility in Moss Landing during a press conference in Castroville, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

MOSS LANDING, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 17: A view of flames and giant smoke over the sky as a fire erupted at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday that located on Pacific Coast Highway in Moss ...

Moss Landing is located approximately 320 miles northwest of Los Angeles. This story has been updated to add new information. Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY.

Following a lithium-ion battery fire at the Moss Landing plant in Monterey County in California, communities nationwide are expressing concerns about hosting similar plants.

But now, after a massive fire last month at one of the largest battery storage plants in the world — Moss Landing in Monterey County — caused the evacuation of 1,200 people, closed Highway 1 ...