The goal is to neutralize a nearby 15,000-gallon tank and reduce its explosive potential if the smaller tank failed.

The battle to keep a highly toxic chemical from exploding took a step backward Saturday.

40,000 people remain evacuated while crews put themselves ‘in harm’s way’ to try to avert disaster, official says.

In a post on social media, OCFA officials showed a potential blast map, which could affect nearby neighborhoods if the tank ...

An estimated 40,000 people in Orange County, California, have been ordered to evacuate over fears that a tank containing a ...

Officials in California on Saturday walked back a previous optimistic temperature reading at an overheated chemical storage ...

Firefighters still have few options to prevent a tank of toxic chemicals in Garden Grove, Calif., from leaking or exploding.

Roughly 40,000 people were still under evacuation orders early Saturday morning, as authorities continued to try to head off ...

Some 40,000 people were evacuated on Friday following a malfunction in a tank containing a flammable, volatile chemical used ...

Evacuation orders have been issued in portions of the cities of Garden Grove, Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, Stanton and Westminster.

Firefighters continue to cool a chemical storage tank with water to prevent it from breaching or exploding. Some 40,000 ...

Thousands of residents were evacuated after a 34,000-gallon storage tank spewed toxic chemicals into the air in Garden Grove ...