40,000 people under evacuation orders after a chemical tank leak in Southern California
Authorities in Southern California on Friday were racing to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that has been leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts, as some 40,000 people were under evacuation orders in the area.
A storage tank holding between 22,700 and 26,500 liters of methyl methacrylate overheated Thursday, local time, and began venting vapors into the air at an aerospace plastics facility in Garden Grove, a city in Orange County, the county’s fire aut
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