Newsom said the state is 'mobilizing every resource available' after more than 40,000 residents were ordered to evacuate Orange County.

Authorities in Orange County say they’re unable to control the valves on a tank that contains methyl methacrylate, a chemical used in the manufacture of plexiglass.

Officials fear a failing chemical tank holding flammable chemicals is going to spill or explode

Authorities in Orange county say tank holding methyl methacrylate ‘actively in crisis’ and urge residents to leave

An official said there's no active leak, but evacuations orders are to prepare for either a spill or an explosion from a failing chemical tank.

No injuries or deaths have been reported, authorities said.

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…

'This thing is going to fail. We don't know when,' Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Craig Covey warned during a tense emergency briefing Friday.

Chemical tank leak in Garden Grove forces 40,000 evacuations as crews race to prevent a possible explosion at a Southern California aerospace plastics plant.

Authorities in southern California ordered the evacuation of 40,000 people on Friday after a huge storage tank began leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts,…

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...employees saw that the tank was bulging, a sign it was still “actively in crisis... It can crack and leak, or it can blow up.”

California's governor declared a state of emergency in Orange County on Saturday as emergency crews continue their efforts to cool down an overheated chemical storage tank and…

Tens of thousands of residents are under evacuation in Orange County due to a tank containing roughly 7,000 gallons of a toxic industrial chemical.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday declared a state of emergency in Orange County, Calif., in response to a hazardous chemical incident there.

Efforts are on to stabilize a damaged chemical tank at a facility in Southern California where tens of thousands of people have been ordered out of their homes.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Orange County and his office pleaded for residents to follow evacuation orders.

Southern California officials are desperately searching for a safe resolution to a leaking toxic chemical tank at an aerospace facility.

Evacuation orders are in place for an area covering tens of thousands of people in a suburb of Los Angeles.

Order facilitates support for 40,000 people told to evacuate Orange county as responders try to divert explosion

One California town is in a state of emergency and 50,000 people are under an evacuation order as a malfunctioning chemical tank at an aerospace plant is overheating and could…