A man with short dark hair in a blue suit looks straight ahead as he sits in a room that is out of focus behind him. US Environmental Protection Agency deputy administrator David Fotouhi testifies at ...

One person is confirmed dead and nine others are unaccounted for after a Washington state chemical implosion that has proven to be even larger than previously reported. A vat containing around 900,000 ...

The remaining 16,000 residents of a Southern California city were allowed to return home Tuesday, days after the threat of a catastrophic explosion at a chemical tank prompted fears of an ...

Orange County Fire Authority officials said Monday morning that the temperature of a chemical tank in Garden Grove has cooled, eliminating the risk of a catastrophic explosion. “We are happy to report ...

Crews responding to the chemical emergency at a Southern California aerospace facility discovered what officials described as a possible crack in the unstable tank that may be relieving pressure ...

Experts trying to prevent a tank of hazardous chemicals from exploding in Southern California found a "potential crack" in the container that might be reducing the pressure, a fire official said on ...

Recap: Firefighters face ‘unprecedented' Garden Grove chemical tank crisis Orange County authorities are weighing options in a volatile hazardous materials situation involving a toxic chemical tank ...

Authorities are bracing for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 40,000 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire officials are trying to figure out how to keep a chemical tank from leaking or exploding in Garden Grove. (Allen J. Schaben / ...

ORANGE Co., Calif (KGO) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday declared a state of emergency in Orange County amid ongoing efforts to stabilize a damaged chemical tank at a ...