Garden Grove chemical accident
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- “I know I keep talking about we were handed this situation where there’s only two things that can happen, it could crack and leak, or it could blow up.
- Covey said in the later video. “I have an entire team actively working locally, regionally, across the state, and across the country, to try to figure out how to fix this.”
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize. Officials ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes in the Los Angeles suburb of Garden Grove on Friday due to a failing chemical tank that was likely to either leak or explode, possibly releasing toxic vapor into the air, first responders said.
Firefighters doused the tanks with water using a mechanical device that kept humans at a safe distance, stabilizing the temperature and “buying us time,” said Craig Covey, division chief of the Orange County Fire Authority, in a video posted on social media.
In a previous video, Covey had said there were two options remaining, either that the tank would fail and spill up to 7,000 gallons (26,500 liters) of toxic chemicals, or that it would explode and endanger neighboring tanks.