Tragedy in Washington and near-miss in California cast in sharp relief the risk of chemical spills and explosions For several tense days last week, tens of thousands of southern California residents ...

PINE LEVEL, Ala. (WSFA) - Three thousand people across Autauga County, Northwest Elmore County, and southern Chilton County who get their water from the Marbury Water System are under an emergency ...

The worst threats from a damaged chemical tank in Southern California have passed, with authorities saying a major explosion was no longer imminent, but evacuations are still in place amid continued ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Risk of catastrophic blast from California chemical leak eliminated, but other concerns remain 02:12 Tens of thousands of Southern ...

Cypress, California — Fifty thousand Southern California residents remain under evacuation orders Monday after emergency crews raced to prevent a tank holding a volatile industrial chemical from ...

An issue with a valve caused the contents of a chemical storage tank in Garden Grove, California, to overheat, prompting fears of a possible disaster that threatened to expose residents to toxic ...

Authorities — scrambling to find a safe resolution after a tank containing a hazardous chemical at a Southern California aerospace plant was damaged — believe the risk of a catastrophic explosion has ...

US officials credit overnight cooling and monitoring for stabilizing tank after leak fears triggered mass evacuation Firefighters contending with an overheating tank of hazardous chemicals in southern ...

The Orange County Fire Authority said the tank's internal temperature was at least 100 degrees on Saturday night. On Sunday, firefighters reported a potential crack in the tank that might help relieve ...

After sending in a specialized team of firefighters overnight to examine a chemical tank at risk of leaking or exploding, California emergency officials said they could be changing their strategy as ...

Emergency crews launched a high-stakes "offensive" overnight mission at a Southern California aerospace facility to neutralize an adjacent chemical tank, as the internal temperature of a failing ...