GKN Aerospace officials have announced a series of community support initiatives intended to help the thousands of Orange County residents who were forced to evacuate their homes when the Garden Grove-based facility became the center of a chemical crisis in late May.
In a news release shared on Wednesday, approximately two weeks after the incident began at the aerospace facility on Western Avenue, officials said that they had funded $3 million to Orange County United Way’s OC Community Resilience Fund “to provide assistance to those affected by the recent evacuation of areas surrounding GKN’s Garden Grove facility.”
“The company is also committing an additional $1 million to support broader community initiatives across Orange County,” the release said. “GKN earlier funded $1 million to the American Red Cross to support residents directly impacted by evacuation orders when those orders were in effect.”…