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California chemical tank has cracked, causing state of emergency, thousands to evacuate
Some 50,000 residents of Garden Grove, California remain under an evacuation order Sunday as emergency response teams struggle to deal with a potentially explosive situation at a nearby aerospace manufacturing plant. Nobody was killed, but windows were blown out as far as 600 ft. There are still many environmental and health hazards The company which owns the plant, GKN Aerospace, said on Sunday that it was "working around the clock to mitigate the risk of a leak."
