{"id":457559,"date":"2026-09-08T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:40:08","slug":"southern-california-authorities-respond-to-a-leak-of-an-unknown-chemical-from-a-tank-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457559\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California authorities respond to a leak of an unknown chemical from a tank :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Authorities in Southern California responded to a slow leak from a chemical tank on Tuesday but quickly got it under control.<\/p>\n<p>The substance and the leak&#8217;s origin remain unknown, Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Kaitlyn Aldana said.<\/p>\n<p>Three people on scene declined transport to a hospital, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Photos posted to social media showed what appeared to be an orange haze or mist in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>La Habra Mayor Jose Medrano urged residents to shelter in place and said some streets were being evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Gomez, who manages a pickleball program nearby, said he could see an orange cloud rising in the sky. He called police and was told anyone within a mile radius of the location is under an evacuation order. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said, \u2018if you\u2019re inside the one-mile (radius), you have to leave right now,\u2019\u201d Gomez said, adding he\u2019s closing down his program for the rest of the day<\/p>\n<p>The area is a mix of residential neighborhoods and industrial warehouses about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Anaheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Authorities in Southern California responded to a slow leak from a chemical tank on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34243,32516,27902,5167,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-457559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ap-climate-and-environment","tag-ap-politics","tag-ap-u-s-news","tag-associated-press","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457559","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=457559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}