A battery plant fire in Moss Landing forced local businesses to close or limit their operations over the weekend, resulting in significant financial losses.”It’s kind of scary. It’s a scary feeling,” said Rosa Quezada, owner of Kukis Food Truck.Quezada explained that the community depends on her food truck for essential services.”We have a school that depends on us, we have to show up in Monterey. They depend on us because they don’t have a facility for feeding these students so they depend on us to go out there and feed the students,” Quezada said. Unfortunately, Quezada had to cancel on the school on short notice and now faces financial challenges.”We did lose out on a couple of days so it’s an impact because it’s a small business it does leave a big impact. We tried to think of other things like schedule other events around the area,” Quezada said. The Bees Knee’s Bakery, which sells to wholesale clients around the peninsula and operates at farmers markets, also faced disruptions.”We scrambled and we put some things together for the wholesale clients over the weekend we were let in briefly for some short periods and the farmers market we got some limited goods out,” said Jeanne Brooks, the bakery owner.The local fish market was similarly affected, with customers unable to buy fish and fishermen unable to access their boats.”None of our wholesale buyers could come get fish. I had crab bait loaded on my boat to fish on Thursday and it was disgustingly rotten this morning when I got to the boat we had to dump it all overboard. Hundreds of dollars worth of bait,” said Walter, a local fisherman.These are just a few examples of the businesses impacted by the fire, with owners hoping they can somehow make up the money lost.See more coverage of top Central Coast stories here | Download our app | Download Very Local
A battery plant fire in Moss Landing forced local businesses to close or limit their operations over the weekend, resulting in significant financial losses.
“It’s kind of scary. It’s a scary feeling,” said Rosa Quezada, owner of Kukis Food Truck.
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Quezada explained that the community depends on her food truck for essential services.
“We have a school that depends on us, we have to show up in Monterey. They depend on us because they don’t have a facility for feeding these students so they depend on us to go out there and feed the students,” Quezada said.
Unfortunately, Quezada had to cancel on the school on short notice and now faces financial challenges.
“We did lose out on a couple of days so it’s an impact because it’s a small business it does leave a big impact. We tried to think of other things like schedule other events around the area,” Quezada said.
The Bees Knee’s Bakery, which sells to wholesale clients around the peninsula and operates at farmers markets, also faced disruptions.
“We scrambled and we put some things together for the wholesale clients over the weekend we were let in briefly for some short periods and the farmers market we got some limited goods out,” said Jeanne Brooks, the bakery owner.
The local fish market was similarly affected, with customers unable to buy fish and fishermen unable to access their boats.
“None of our wholesale buyers could come get fish. I had crab bait loaded on my boat to fish on Thursday and it was disgustingly rotten this morning when I got to the boat we had to dump it all overboard. Hundreds of dollars worth of bait,” said Walter, a local fisherman.
These are just a few examples of the businesses impacted by the fire, with owners hoping they can somehow make up the money lost.
See more coverage of top Central Coast stories here | Download our app | Download Very Local
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