Days after mass evacuations were ordered in Orange County, the next few hours could be crucial in dealing with a volatile chemical tank at a Garden Grove aerospace company that has threatened to either explode or cause a major spill.
The latest development came Sunday night, when officials announced “an all-night mission” to determine whether the tank in Garden Grove is still at risk of exploding.
Here is what we know:
Major operation
The operation, about which there were few details, will be “to confirm that the pressure in the tank has been released and that the BLEVE threat is eliminated,” TJ McGovern, interim fire chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, said in a video posted to social media just before 9 p.m. Sunday…