The Moss Landing fire at a lithium battery plant has poured smoke into the sky above Monterey County. The weather service forecasts wind to push it east.

The fire at the Vistra battery storage facility in Moss Landing continued burning on Friday, keeping up to 1,500 Central Coast residents under a mandatory evacuation order.

A fire at a one of the world’s largest battery plants in California contained tens of thousands of lithium batteries that store power from renewable energy sources.

A fire at a major battery-storage plant in Northern California prompted the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents and the closure of schools and parts of Highway 1 nearby. Residents of the area around the Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County were evacuated late Thursday after the fire broke out.

A fire broke out at California's Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, which one official called a "wake-up call" for the sustainable energy industry.