Crews Work Overnight to Keep Garden Grove Chemical Tank from Exploding

Crews worked overnight into Monday morning to keep the chemical tank in Garden Grove (a suburb of Southern California’s Orange County) from exploding in the hopes of preventing a chemical disaster.

The “crisis situation,” which forced California Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a “state of emergency,” has now forced 50,000 people from their homes as the authorities work to “stop a pressurized tank filled with a toxic chemical at the GKN Aerospace facility from exploding in Garden Grove,” per ABC News.

In a Sunday afternoon update, Orange County Fire Authority Interim Chief TJ McGovern said firefighters did “a recon mission on the tank” late Saturday night, during which they discovered a crack, which could be relieving some of the pressure.

In a later update, OCFA said an all-night mission will be conducted to confirm if the pressure in the tank has been released and that the threat of a