{"id":331887,"date":"2026-05-25T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:35:08","slug":"california-chemical-leak-forces-mass-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331887\/","title":{"rendered":"California chemical leak forces mass evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leaking chemical tank at an industrial site in southern <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/california-wildfires\/a-71254934\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> has triggered mass evacuations amid fears of a major explosion.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50,000 residents were ordered to leave as authorities warned of a potential Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The tank, containing chemicals used in aircraft production, overheated before developing a crack that may have eased pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Officials continue monitoring the risk, while evacuees face uncertainty over safety and their return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leaking chemical tank at an industrial site in southern California has triggered mass evacuations amid fears of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-331887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331887","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=331887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}