THE FIRE NEXT TIME.

While the Los Angeles wildfires were still mostly not contained, word reached Cold Spring Shops of a fire at a battery factory in west central California.

Authorities in Monterey County, California lifted all evacuations Friday night, one day after a fire broke out at one of the world's largest lithium battery storage facilities.

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office made the announcement shortly after 6 p.m. local time. Health officials still advised residents near the Moss Landing Vistra Power Plant, located about 90 miles south of San Francisco, to limit outdoor exposure and to keep doors and windows closed until further notice.

California, the land of the crumbling infrastructure, with the risk of being poisoned.

Assemblymember Dawn Addis and Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church, who spoke at the earlier press conference, addressed the media after the flare-up and voicing safety concerns for their constituents.

"There's been three incidents here. There's been the PG&E incident. It's really time to put a stop to it and take a breath and make sure that we can assure the public they're safe," said Addis. "This incident does look and feel very different. It's a different configuration, the fire is different."

However, by around 3 p.m., the flames had once again subsided and the black smoke being produced by the fire turned white.

Also on Friday afternoon, CBS News Bay Area obtained a statement from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding the Moss Landing facility fire.

"Last night, the Monterey Fire Department requested EPA technical assistance to provide perimeter air monitoring at the Vistra Moss Landing Power Plant in Moss Landing, Monterey County. EPA and contractors were mobilized and arrived on scene. Additional EPA personnel, including four air monitoring specialists, and equipment are currently en route. The fire is ongoing, and EPA has joined Unified Command. At this time, Unified Command is led by the City of Monterey's Fire Department.

Evacuation and safety decisions are being made by the Incident Command. EPA is supporting the local authorities by gathering air monitoring data to help the fire Incident Command and local public health officials those decisions. Please reach out to the local fire department for more information."

The fire started at around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon at a power plant and battery facility operated by Texas-based Vistra Energy. The plant is a natural gas-powered electricity generation plant in Moss Landing, an unincorporated area of the county.

"Stop and take a breath" might not have been the most felicitous way to urge calm.  And calm, notes Michael "From Poverty to Progress" Magoon, is not the proper frame of mind where lithium battery factories are concerned.  And even when the works was functioning properly, it would not have been able to power even a small electric furnace steel plant.  "If I understand the units of measurement correctly, the entire battery system can output 750 MW of electricity for a total duration of 4 hours."

Power Line's John Hinderaker suggests the green delusions will be costly.

Their Green Dream is collapsing ignominiously, and meanwhile, the Chinese are opening new coal-fired power plants at the rate of at least one per week. If we continue down the futile energy path we are now on, we will lose out to the Communist Chinese. And, frankly, if we are that dumb, we deserve to lose.

Yes, and if we rely on Chinese steel, our infrastructure will crumble around us.