Following days of chaos and uncertainty caused by official evacuation orders due to a compromised Garden Grove chemical storage tank, Orange County community members are relieved to be home, back in school, and back to business.
On Tuesday night, Orange County officials gave the all-clear on the crisis that prompted 50,000 people in several cities to evacuate last week, allowing the 16,000 people still under evacuation orders last night to return home.
“We just raced and packed up the stuff and couldn’t wait to get home. We love our neighborhood,” Stanton resident Karen Bethell said.
She and her family evacuated their home on Friday. Bethrell says they packed their dogs, picked up her mother with Alzheimer’s from her care home, and stayed with family in Fullerton…