A major fire burning at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants in Northern California is sending up flames of toxic smoke.
Officials in Monterey County, Calif., ordered an evacuation around the Moss Landing Power Plant, which caught fire Thursday.
California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire.
The Los Angeles Times’ billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, declared on X that “the Mayor cut LA Fire Department’s budget ...