TeslaMegapack battery fire is ‘fully controlled,’ shelter-in-place advisory lifted
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#63VPC)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire this morning at the local utility company PG&E's Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, as reported by local news stations KSBW Action News 8 and KRON4.
The fire started at around 1:30AM this morning, according to PG&E's operations comm manager, Jeff Smith. No injuries were reported at the scene.
Around 7PM PT / 10PM ET, the North County Fire Department and Monterey County Sheriff's Office lifted the advisory and reopened the roads. In a tweet from the Public Information for Monterey County account, officials reported on the Megapack battery fire at the Elkhorn facility, saying, While the fire is considered fully controlled, smoke may still occur in the area for several...