California declared a state of emergency due to a looming chemical disaster threat in Orange County. The proclamation directs the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and other state agencies to provide additional support to local responders. State-owned properties are being made available to shelter about 40,000 people ordered to evacuate. A storage tank holding methyl methacrylate began off-gassing and threatened to fail at a Garden Grove facility owned by GKN Aerospace. The chemical is highly flammable and used to fabricate resins and plastics. Local authorities say the tank could explode or leak into a parking lot. Firefighters have tried cooling the tank with water, but attempts appear to be failing. An emergency response team attempted to add a neutralizing agent to a nearby tank, but the temperature had risen to 90F.
"An emergency response team entered the facility last night to try adding a neutralizing agent to a separate, nearby tank to reduce its explosive potential, Orange county fire authority division chief Craig Covey said in a video statement on Saturday. When the team saw the temperature gauge, the tank had reached 90F about 13 degrees higher than the last time it had been read, the day before."
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