Evacuation area cut to 15,000

UPDATE: There’s good news for most of the people affected by the establishment of the evacuation zone created by the toxic gas emergency created at a plastics factory in West Garden Grove.

At a press conference held at 6 p.m. today (Monday), Orange County officials announced that with the danger of an explosion having passed, the evacuation zone zone would be reduced to a perimeter of Orangewood Avenue on the north, Dale Street to the east, Garden Grove Boulevard to the south and Knott Street on the west.

That removes about 35,000 of the people in the zone from the evacuation area; remaining are about 16,000…

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