California Emergency Declared After Overheating Chemical Tank Risks Explosion in Garden Grove

Emergency officials evacuated 50,000 residents near a Garden Grove aerospace facility after a damaged chemical tank threatened to explode.Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency while firefighters work to cool the volatile methyl methacrylate stored on-site.The incident follows past environmental violations at the plant, prompting a class-action lawsuit from affected residents.
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