{"id":49699,"date":"2026-05-24T03:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49699"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:42:31","slug":"40000-ordered-to-evacuate-in-california-amid-toxic-chemical-tank-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49699","title":{"rendered":"40,000 Ordered to Evacuate in California Amid Toxic Chemical Tank Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: 40,000 Ordered to Evacuate in California Amid Toxic Chemical Tank Crisis<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">40,000 Ordered to Evacuate in California Amid Toxic Chemical Tank Crisis<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Firefighters worked on Saturday at the GKN Aerospace aircraft components plant in Garden Grove, Calif., to stop a storage tank filled with a toxic chemical from failing, risking a major explosion or a toxic spill.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Does it rupture and spill or does it blow up? Right now, one of the concepts we\u2019re thinking about is because of the heavy deluge of water and cooling it, we\u2019re allowing it to cure at a slower rate and reducing its overpressure building. Letting this thing just fail and blow up is unacceptable to us. Our goal is to find something and not allow that to happen, not to let it damage our community, not let it damage our environment. That\u2019s unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Firefighters worked on Saturday at the GKN Aerospace aircraft components plant in Garden Grove, Calif., to stop a storage tank filled with a toxic chemical from failing, risking a major explosion or a toxic spill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alisa Shodiyev Kaff<\/p>\n<p>May 23, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: 40,000 Ordered to Evacuate in California Amid Toxic Chemical Tank Crisis transcript Back transcript 40,000 Ordered to Evacuate in California Amid Toxic Chemical Tank Crisis Firefighters worked on Saturday at the GKN Aerospace aircraft components plant in Garden Grove, Calif., to stop a storage tank filled with a toxic chemical from failing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[667,4896,187,5951,7244,12889,1577],"class_list":{"0":"post-49699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-chemical","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-evacuate","12":"tag-ordered","13":"tag-tank","14":"tag-toxic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}