Cause of chemical tank catastrophe that threatened to blow up parts of Orange County revealed ^25.5%

California Post - By Daniel Farr - 5/26/2026, 9:39 PM

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A failed cooling system may have triggered the dangerous chemical leak at a Garden Grove aerospace facility that led officials to evacuate roughly 50,000 residents over an explosion threat, officials said. Orange County Fire Authority Chief TJ McGovern said that a pressurized storage tank holding 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate, a... more