A massive fire has broken out in one of the world’s largest battery storage facilities containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries, prompting a full scale mobilisation of firefighters across several counties in Northern California. The Independent has the story.
Towering flames were visible from afar as a large black column of smoke rose from the Moss Landing power plant, with the fire showing no signs of easing in the early hours of Friday. It was first reported around 3pm local time.
The fire is located in the northern part of the sate some 300 miles (500 km) north of the wildfires in Los Angeles. The plant contains tens of thousands of lithium batteries, which can be extremely difficult to put out if they go up in flames.
“There’s no way to sugar coat it. This is a disaster, is what it is,” Monterey County supervisor Glenn Church told KSBW-TV. But the fire is not expected to spread beyond the concrete building it is enclosed in, he added. Highway 1, located nearby, has been shut down by authorities.
The plant is around 100 miles (160 km) south of San Francisco, and the blaze is unrelated to the ongoing wildfires in the southern Californian city of Los Angeles, which started around 10 days ago and have killed at least 27 people.
The cause of the fire is currently unclear, said a statement from the factory’s owners, Texas-based company Vistra Energy. Around 1,500 people were successfully evacuated from the building, according to the Mercury News. …
Vistra plants also suffered fires in 2021 and 2022 which were caused by a fire sprinkler system malfunction, causing some units to overheat, the Mercury News reported.
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19/11? Who will the dictator be then? Ask a bookmaker.
Could you elucidate please?
New PM will be in post by then…
Thank you.
“Protect children from harmful internet content without overregulating the free press” – The Telegraph in a leading article says the Online Safety Bill needs to be amended to restore its original worthy purpose.
Well, isn’t that really the job of parents?
Anyway, worthy or not, that’s the ostensible purpose, not necessarily the true one.
Do people even identify as parents these days? I thought that role was being taken by teachers and other professions.
As there’s no certain way to determine who is or isn’t legally a minor online, protecting children from harmful internet content requires treating every users as child by default: Whatever the government designates as harmful to children will be have to be banned for everyone for the general case.
Meanwhile, in proper news..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62149521
Sheep people quite happy to gobble up this kind of shite whilst the world is on the brink of catastrophic numbers of vaccine deaths and disintegration of services and the economy.
Nothing to see in that respect though folks, here’s a story about someone that had Star Wars figures on her wedding cake and likes to be referred to as zie/zir.
MSM, go **** yourselves.
Seconded.
Seconded.
If you didn’t catch it on GB News last night….Mark Steyn …Victims of the Vax.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0itukLiCaLzr/
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/governments-flagship-online-safety-bill-has-been-dropped-from-commons-business
The government’s flagship Online Safety Bill is set to be dropped from Commons business next week with a view for it to return to the Commons “in the autumn”.
PoliticsHome understands that the Bill was removed from the government’s agenda to make space for a motion of no confidence in the governmen due to be put to the House on Monday.
What a shame, need to keep up the pressure to bin it completely. though if not brought in, the next WEF stooge will be removed until one pushes it through for the WEF
Everyone’s getting it so they need to waste money on free tests to confirm that everyone’s getting it. Genius.
It was generally accepted prior to 2019 that mass testing was useless once a virus becomes widespread because you can’t detect it fast enough, i.e. once you detect one person it’s already spread to multiple other people.
And once it’s below a certain level, mass testing means that most of your tests will be pointless.
But let’s do it anyway for a laugh.
And some are making a profit, selling useless junk.
“Is the fifth Covid wave already peaking? Virus NHS admissions and cases slow despite calls for masks and social distancing to return – as deaths creep up by just six per day.”
How on earth did I miss the first four?