Tens of thousands of Southern California residents were told to leave their homes after officials warned that a leaking chemical tank in Orange County could spill toxic material or explode.
According to The Guardian, authorities in Orange County ordered about 40,000 people to evacuate after a storage tank at a GKN Aerospace site in Garden Grove began releasing gas and appeared close to failure.
“We have a tank that is actively in crisis,” Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Craig Covey told reporters at a news conference…