{"id":815772,"date":"2026-05-23T01:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/815772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:28:20","slug":"garden-grove-chemical-leak-evacuations-closures-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/815772\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Grove chemical leak: Evacuations, closures, shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A failing tank in Garden Grove holding toxic chemicals has <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-21\/residents-evacuated-toxic-leak-garden-grove-aerospace-company\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prompted major evacuations covering<\/a> six Orange County cities, and officials are not sure when the orders will be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation area<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation perimeter stretches from Ball Road to the north, Trask Avenue to the south, Valley View Street to the west and Dale Avenue to the east. That includes parts of Garden Grove, Cypress, Stanton, Anaheim, Buena Park and Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>                Road closures<\/p>\n<p>Beach Boulevard is closed from Garden Grove Boulevard to Orangewood Avenue. Several off-ramps are closed on the 22 Freeway including Beach Boulevard, Knott Avenue and Valley View Street. <\/p>\n<p>Schools\/other facilities closed<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Barker Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bryant Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Carver Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Enders Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Garden Park Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lawrence Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wakeham Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Patton Elementary School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bell Intermediate School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Alamitos Intermediate School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pacifica High School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rancho Alamitos High School<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Skylark Preschool<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Garden Grove Unified\u2019s maintenance and operations facility<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lampson Bus Yard<\/p>\n<p>Reception Centers for evacuees<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Garden Grove: 13641 Deodara Drive<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cypress: 5700 Orange Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Status<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Fire Authority initially responded to reports of a hazardous materials incident at a business in the 12000 block of Western Avenue at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, officials said. Upon arriving at the scene, officials determined that methyl methacrylate, a volatile liquid used to make plastic, was leaking out of a 34,000-gallon vat.<\/p>\n<p>Crews worked overnight hoping to mitigate the leak, said OCFA Chief TJ McGovern, but whatever progress was made going into Friday morning, ultimately was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a tank that is actively in crisis, for lack of a better word,\u201d Incident Commander Craig Covey said. \u201cThe tank that is in the biggest crisis is, in fact, unable to be secured and mitigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on Facebook on Friday morning, Garden Grove Mayor Stephanie Klopfenstein said crews had a setback when the valve to one tank became frozen and pumps were affected because of water that was being poured on the tanks to keep them cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A failing tank in Garden Grove holding toxic chemicals has prompted major evacuations covering six Orange County cities,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":813897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,4415,25076,115,31395,3537,3048,111475,2961,331152,224,5337,1408,331151,101491,22209,9071,331153,33337],"class_list":["post-815772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-closure","tag-crew","tag-crisis","tag-cypress","tag-evacuation","tag-friday-morning","tag-garden-grove","tag-la","tag-lampson-bus-yard","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-official","tag-orange-county-chemical-leak","tag-p-m-thursday","tag-shelter","tag-tank","tag-valley-view-street","tag-western-avenue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116621299402466609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}