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Cypress, California — Fifty thousand Southern California residents remain under evacuation orders Monday after emergency crews raced to prevent a tank holding a volatile industrial chemical from exploding at an aerospace facility in Garden Grove. Officials announced Monday morning that they believed they turned a corner but that a threat still remained. The threat centered … Read more
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LA PALMA, Calif. — A potential crack may be releasing pressure inside a toxic chemical tank in Southern California, officials said Sunday, a development they hope could help avert a devastating vapor explosion. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The possible crack was identified during a visual … Read more
Officials say an industrial tank in Southern California containing about 7,000 gallons of highly flammable and toxic chemicals appears to have cracked. Experts say that could mean a rupture or catastrophic explosion may be averted. Thousands have been evacuated from several communities in Orange County. Lana Zak reports. Source link
A damaged chemical tank in Southern California has a crack — potentially lowering the risk of a cataclysmic explosion — though an evacuation order remains in effect for some 50,000 area residents with no timeline on when they can return, fire officials said Sunday. Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Wayhowe Huang said that fire officials … Read more
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Authorities were scrambling to find a safe resolution as a damaged tank at a Southern California aerospace facility containing a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts prompted an evacuation order affecting thousands of residents. The storage tank at GKN Aerospace with about 6,000 to 7,000 gallons (22,713 to 26,498 liters) of methyl methacrylate overheated … Read more
Firefighters on Saturday were trying to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the incident’s commander said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The 7,000-gallon tank containing methyl methacrylate, a toxic … Read more