{"id":21236,"date":"2025-01-17T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/drone-footage-shows-fire-at-one-of-worlds-largest-battery-plants\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:33:13","slug":"drone-footage-shows-fire-at-one-of-worlds-largest-battery-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/drone-footage-shows-fire-at-one-of-worlds-largest-battery-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone footage shows fire at one of world&#8217;s largest battery plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A fire has broken out at a Californian power plant housing one of the largest battery energy storage facilities in the world. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The blaze began in a building containing lithium-ion batteries on Thursday afternoon, an official at the Monterey County Sheriff&#8217;s office said. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Moss Landing power plant, run by Vistra Corp, was evacuated, as were people in the surrounding area. No injuries were reported. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Officials are not actively fighting the fire, the Monterey Sheriff spokesperson said, and are instead leaving the building and the batteries to burn on the advice of fire experts.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/ce855z6z1d5o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire has broken out at a Californian power plant housing one of the largest battery energy storage facilities in the world. The blaze began in a building containing lithium-ion batteries on Thursday afternoon, an official at the Monterey County Sheriff&#8217;s office said. The Moss Landing power plant, run by Vistra Corp, was evacuated, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21238,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21236\/revisions\/21238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}