{"id":329727,"date":"2026-05-23T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329727\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:45:07","slug":"los-alamitos-calls-off-saturday-horse-races-amid-garden-grove-hazmat-crisis-san-gabriel-valley-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329727\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Alamitos calls off Saturday horse races amid Garden Grove hazmat crisis \u2013 San Gabriel Valley Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress has canceled its Saturday night card for quarter horses and thoroughbreds amid evacuations in the area of a malfunctioning chemical storage tank in nearby Garden Grove, track officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>Los Alamitos is less than four miles from GKN Aerospace, the facility where crews have been working since Friday to try to keep the overheating storage tank from exploding or cracking.<\/p>\n<p>Track management said its\u00a0parking lot is being utilized as a staging area by the Orange County Fire Authority and other first responders.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/05\/22\/how-worried-should-you-be-about-a-garden-grove-chemical-spill-or-explosions-impact-on-your-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How worried should you be about a Garden Grove chemical spill or explosion\u2019s impact on your health?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The track\u2019s eight-race program was to have begun at 6:15 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Racing Sunday is scheduled to begin at 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress has canceled its Saturday night card for quarter horses and thoroughbreds amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[136570,8506,131,133,132,127],"class_list":["post-329727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-garden-grove-chemical-threat","tag-horse-racing","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329727","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=329727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}