California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Orange County over a massive chemical tank that is poised ‘spill or explode.’
More than 40,000 residents were evacuated on Saturday after emergency crews failed to neutralize the 34,000-gallon tank at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove.
The tank contains highly volatile methyl methacrylate (MMA) which officials fear could leak out or explode, possibly triggering a toxic chain reaction in other nearby containers…