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explosion is 'eliminated', California officials say The threat of a failing chemical tank in Orange County exploding has been eliminated following an overnight operation, California fire officials say. Division Chief Craig Covey said on Monday
explosive situation at a nearby aerospace manufacturing plant. Here's the latest on what's happening at the plant, and what could yet come. ### **Overnight, the chemical tank appeared to have cracked** The tank, which
news conference that the 80,000-gallon (about 300,000-litre) tank was approximately 60 percent full. In [southern California](/news/2026/5/23/failing-chemical-tank-forces-thousands-to-evacuate-in-southern-california), meanwhile, authorities have been monitoring an overheating industrial tank containing methyl methacrylate, a highly
California, [have warned that an overheated chemical tank “will fail”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/24/chemical-tank-california-epa-lee-zeldin) and could result in a chemical explosion in the area, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator said yesterday. “We’re being told that
chemicals in a tank at the facility began exceeding safe temperature limits. Authorities evacuated residents to protect them from the [risk of a large explosion and the harmful fumes](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/24/nx-s1-5833165/california-chemical-tank-malfunction-leak-explode-emergency-evacuate) it could produce
California](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california), Zeldin said, would be “an explosion that results in other tanks to explode. That’s the reason why you see such a big evacuation that’s been done in the surrounding