{"id":332442,"date":"2026-05-26T04:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332442\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:15:09","slug":"ghouls-haunt-evacuated-orange-county-blast-zone-cops-make-multiple-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332442\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghouls haunt evacuated Orange County blast zone \u2014 cops make multiple arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looters have begun targeting empty homes in Orange Country after the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/25\/us-news\/orange-county-chemical-plant-officials-say-explosion-threat-eliminated\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">toxic tank leak forced the evacuation<\/a> for up to 50,000 residents for their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed seven arrests have been made as prowlers moved into deserted streets in Garden Grove  that surround the GKN Aerospace facility. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39477400\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-storage-tank-containing-chemical-128666306.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of empty streets and buildings in Garden Grove, California, following a chemical tank overheating.\" class=\"wp-image-39477400\"  \/>An aerial view of empty streets and buildings in Garden Grove. AP Photo\/Ethan Swope<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.59501558;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39477393\" width=\"941\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pressurized-tank-filled-methyl-methacrylate-128657397_c888a6.jpg\" alt=\"Water spraying a pressurized tank filled with methyl methacrylate at GKN Aerospace.\" class=\"wp-image-39477393\"  \/>Water spraying a pressurized tank filled with methyl methacrylate at GKN Aerospace. MediaNews Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/24\/us-news\/diehards-refuse-to-evacuate-near-epicenter-of-time-bomb-orange-county-chemical-leak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streets were evacuated<\/a> on Thursday afternoon because an overheating tank of potentially deadly methyl methacrylate was threatening to explode.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/25\/us-news\/president-trump-declares-orange-county-chemical-leak-a-federal-emergency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granted a federal emergency declaration<\/a> Monday after California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials spent days warning that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/24\/us-news\/oc-officials-reveal-critical-update-on-chemical-tank-explosion-threat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dangerous chemical leak in Garden Grove<\/a>\u00a0was at risk of spiraling into a catastrophic explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looters have begun targeting empty homes in Orange Country after the toxic tank leak forced the evacuation for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,102499,25112,723,11330,105243,4182,611,3586],"class_list":["post-332442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chemical-spill","tag-chemicals","tag-crime","tag-disaster","tag-looting","tag-metro","tag-orange-county","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332442","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=332442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}