{"id":328742,"date":"2026-05-23T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:37:11","slug":"garden-grove-gas-leak-live-evacuation-maps-closures-and-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328742\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Grove gas leak: Live evacuation maps, closures and updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If a damaged chemical tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove explodes, it could emit a toxic vapor that has a \u201cfruity and heavy smell,\u201d Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, Orange County\u2019s health officer, said Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmelling it doesn\u2019t mean you reach a level that causes symptoms, but we don\u2019t want you to smell that, so we need to know if you\u2019re smelling it,\u201d Chinsio-Kwong said in <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OCFireAuthority\/status\/2057970486177652826?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a video<\/a> posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>There are three large tanks containing a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-22\/why-garden-grove-chemical-explosion-could-be-so-catastrophic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highly toxic chemical called methyl methacrylate<\/a>, or MMA, used to make plastic, that are in crisis around the 12000 block of Western Avenue in Garden Grove.<\/p>\n<p>The most compromised tank has about 7,000 gallons of the chemical left in it, authorities have said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this situation, our biggest concern is when this chemical reacts, and the temperatures rise, it can cause a vapor,\u201d Chinsio-Kwong said. \u201cMy biggest concern is that if that vapor goes into the air and people inhale that, it causes significant damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said inhaling the vapor can lead to irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, headaches and nausea. Prolonged exposure can cause a person to feel dizzy or drunk and can cause severe respiratory issues.<\/p>\n<p>The South Coast Air Quality Management District had not detected the chemical in the air as of Friday afternoon, she said in the video posted just after 4:40 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are all safe as long as you are out of the zone that was determined to be an evacuation zone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a damaged chemical tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove explodes, it could emit a toxic vapor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[163,1311,7862,6947,13827,2461,31336,11078,136560,48,52,51,136559,47,50,49,3335,4036,65694,10832,136457],"class_list":["post-328742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-anaheim","tag-buena-park","tag-closure","tag-crew","tag-crisis","tag-cypress","tag-friday-morning","tag-garden-grove","tag-garden-grove-gas-leak","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-live-evacuation-map","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-official","tag-stanton","tag-tank","tag-update","tag-valley-view-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}