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Toxic Explosion Feared at California Chemical Plant

Tens of thousands of residents in parts of Orange County, Calif., were under evacuation orders on Friday after a gas tank with toxic chemicals leaked, and a fire official said it could explode.

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Explosion feared at California chemical plant as 40,000 are evacuated

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California officials race to avoid chemical tank explosion, thousands evacuate

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Correction: Southern California-Chemical Tan Story

In a story published May. 26, 2026, about attribution of a quote in a story about a damaged chemical tank in California, The Associated Press attributed a quote to the wrong official.

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Race to stop explosion or leak from damaged Garden Grove chemical tank

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Risk of devastating explosion has been ‘eliminated’ in California toxic chemical tank incident, officials say

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California chemicals tank no longer an explosion risk, say fire officials

The tank of highly flammable methyl methacrylate began overheating on Thursday at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, a city of about 172,000 people roughly 35 kilometres south of Los Angeles.

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Garden Grove chemical tank cools, risk of catastrophic explosion eliminated

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Evacuation zone shrinks after 'worst-case scenario' of chemical tank blast averted

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Explosion at MOL's Tiszaujvaros petrochemical plant in Hungary kills one

By Krisztina Than and Marton Monus TISZAUJVAROS, Hungary, May 22 (Reuters) - A pipeline explosion at Hungarian oil and gas group MOL's petrochemical plant in Tiszaujvaros that killed one person and injured several others was an industrial accident,

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Disneyland bosses break silence as chemical plant explosion threat sparks panic

Disneyland has said it is monitoring a dangerous chemical tank that is threatening to explode in nearby Garden Grove. The entertainment giant released a statement as fears mounted across Orange County over a pressurized container at a GKN Aerospace plant that could rupture or explode,

Explosion at Hungary petrochemical plant kills 1, injures 7

An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Hungary has killed one person and injured several others. Hungarian energy company Mol Group, which owns the plant, confirmed the incident.

Map: Potential Garden Grove tank explosion blast zone shows where homes, businesses could be damaged

The exact nature of the damage, and what contingencies are in place to deal with it, have not been made clear.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Longford gas plant workers remembered 20 years on from deadly explosion

Workers from Esso's Longford gas plant are still coming to terms with a catastrophic explosion 20 years ago that killed two men and left many others both mentally and physically scarred. The blast on September 25, 1998, killed Peter Wilson and John Lowery.

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Austria gas plant explosion leads to price hikes

Parts of Europe see energy prices soar to unprecedented levels in the wake of a blast at the Baumgarten hub that killed one person. The huge blast at a natural gas hub in eastern Austria has triggered price hikes across Europe. The flow of Russian gas into ...

Map shows Garden Grove chemical emergency and evacuation near GKN Aerospace plant

The evacuation covers a wide area since the flammable chemical could ignite a large explosion and potentially create a toxic plume.