Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County
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#2Is it not possible for them to just... spray it with ice cold water?
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#3I'd be curious how it came to pass that 40k people were living within the blast radius of a plant processing toxic chemicals. Isn't this sort of thing the primary justification for the existence of zoning laws?
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#4Is it not possible for them to just... spray it with ice cold water?
They have been doing exactly that for the past 24 hours. However the contents of the tank are polymerizing, that reaction is exothermic, and the tank is quite large.
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#5Is it not possible for them to just... spray it with ice cold water?
Read the article. They have been doing that, but that is just slowing things down and buying them time.
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#6Worth mentioning that in February the EPA proposed to severely deregulate chemical facilities like the one in Garden Grove, gutting third-party audits, hazard reporting, and public transparency requirements. They titled it the ‘Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention.’ The public comment window closed just eleven days before this disaster…
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-02-24/pdf/2026-0...
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#7More fire / explosion risk than the "toxic cloud engulfs city" rhetoric people have been spreading.
https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC127140100&...
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#8I'd be curious how it came to pass that 40k people were living within the blast radius of a plant processing toxic chemicals. Isn't this sort of thing the primary justification for the existence of zoning laws?
The actual site of the tank is 33.78356416377991, -117.99993897629278 [1] - its in an industrial park, and its not a large scale chemical manufacturing facility.
Its 'light manufacturing' for a company that makes custom formed acrylics for aerospace.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°47'00.8%22N+117°59'59.8...
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#10I'd be curious how it came to pass that 40k people were living within the blast radius of a plant processing toxic chemicals. Isn't this sort of thing the primary justification for the existence of zoning laws?
The actual site of the tank is 33.78356416377991, -117.99993897629278 [1] - its in an industrial park, and its not a large scale chemical manufacturing facility. Its 'light manufacturing' for a company that makes custom formed acrylics for aerospace. https://www.google.com/maps/place/33°47'00.8%22N+117°59'59.8...
That being said: https://www.ocregister.com/2026/05/22/disneyland-and-knotts-...