So many people will be affected. The children, the parents, the homeowners who live close to this facility. We have to fight back. They are always shoving these kinds of places at us. This is very, very dangerous.
"And we think they do because of the contracts they've entered into that are publicly filed with Vistra, filed with the California Public Utilities Commission. And PG&E had the right to as it appears to us to have a say in the design to the Vistra plant," Johnson said.
"There's no way to sugar coat it. This is a disaster, is what it is," Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church told KSBW-TV. He expressed serious concern regarding the fire's implications for the neighboring community but indicated optimism that it would not spread beyond the facility's concrete confines.