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A “here soon” sign has gone up at the site of an upcoming In-N-Out location in Irvine. It’s at The Canopy, a 12-acre shopping center under construction at the Great Park Neighborhoods.⁠
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“Having opened our first Irvine restaurant nearly 35 years ago, we’re grateful to have been part of the community and look forward to continuing to serve our customers with our second location in the city,” he wrote in an email.⁠
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In-N-Out’s headquarters are in Irvine, at least for the time being. The chain has announced it will be relocating to its hometown, Baldwin Park, and a new hub in Tennessee in the coming years.⁠
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🖊️: Fielding Buck, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG⁠
📷: Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG

An “all-night mission” to see if the threat of a catastrophic explosion at a malfunctioning chemical tank at a Garden Grove aerospace company has been eliminated is taking place Sunday evening into Monday, officials announced.⁠
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Our coverage of this chemical threat is available for free to all readers in the interest of public safety.⁠
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This is a developing story. Visit the link in our bio for the latest updates.⁠
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📷️: Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG⁠
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Incident Commander Craig Covey gives Garden Grove chemical tank update on Sunday, May 24, 2026.

Our coverage of this chemical threat is available for free to all readers in the interest of public safety.

This is a developing story. Visit the link in our bio for the latest updates.

🎥: OnScene.TV

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CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, a story published Sunday, May 24 was incorrect when it said FEMA was preparing to offer hotel stays. A FEMA spokesman said “We are actively monitoring the situation at the chemical plant in Garden Grove, California. We have received the governor’s request for an Emergency Declaration, and it is currently under review. We urge all impacted residents to stay vigilant, follow direction, and advise from local and state authorities, and stay safe.”⁠
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A crack in a malfunctioning chemical storage tank at a Garden Grove aerospace company could be relieving some of the pressure that has fire officials worried that the tank could explode, causing damage to buildings and unleashing a toxic vapor cloud, the Orange County Fire Authority said Sunday, May 24.⁠
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Our coverage of this chemical threat is available for free to all readers in the interest of public safety.⁠
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📷️: Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG⁠
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Frustrations boiled over Saturday as displaced residents and community leaders awaiting the possible explosion of a chemical storage tank in Garden Grove demanded answers from public officials.

Here is what we know about methyl methacrylate, the substance at the center of the emergency, and the currently unknown temperature of the malfunctioning tank.

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🎥: Teagan Davidge, SCNG
📷:Jeff Gritchen and Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register/SCNG

Experts and emergency crews have been working for nearly two days to try and prevent a potentially catastrophic chemical spill or explosion at Garden Grove aerospace manufacturing facility, but have so far been unable to find a fix.

Here’s a glance at what makes fixing the damaged tank so challenging.

A map and updates are at the link in our bio.

🎥: Teagan Davidge, SCNG
📷: Jeff Antenore, Leonard Ortiz and Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG, AP Photo/Ethan Swope

In the interest of public safety, all readers have free access to our map displaying the evacuation area around the malfunctioning chemical tank in Garden Grove.

An evacuation center opened late Friday afternoon at Savannah High School in Anaheim, adding to the two that opened earlier at Garden Grove Sports & Recreation Center and the Cypress Community Center.

For community members who need assistance or information, the city has established a 24-hour call center at 714-741-5444.

The map and further updates can be found at the link in our bio.

📷: Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register/SCNG

Roughly 40,000 people were still under evacuation orders early Saturday morning, as authorities continued to try to head off the disastrous threat of a malfunctioning chemical storage tank that authorities cautioned was on the verge of exploding and creating a toxic cloud or cracking open and leaking volatile chemicals.

Crews have so far managed to buy time to find an “out of the box” solution to the compromised tank containing a mix of flammable, volatile chemicals used in plastics and manufacturing that overheated at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove.

Updates at the link in our bio.

📷: Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG

An explosion expected to produce a toxic cloud, which already has triggered 40,000 evacuations, could happen as soon as Friday, officials said, following a malfunction in a tank containing a flammable, volatile chemical at an aerospace plant in Garden Grove.

Or the chemical could spill, creating a mess near the site but without the far-reaching uncertainty.

“We have a tank that is actively in crisis,” Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Craig Covey said at a news conference on Friday afternoon. “This thing is going to fail. We don’t know when.”

Visit the link in our bio for an evacuation map and more updates on the situation.

🎥: Sydney Barragan, SCNG
📷: Jeff Gritchen, SCNG

Thousands of residents and businesses in Garden Grove were evacuated again Friday morning, May 22, after a vapor release from a 34,000-gallon tank containing an industrial chemical used in plastics and manufacturing at an aerospace plant.

The chemical is methyl methacrylate, often used to make resins and plastics, and is “irritating to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes in humans,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says.

Evacuation orders were reissued at 6:15 a.m. and updated about 10:45 a.m. for residents north of Trask Avenue, east of Valley View, west of Dale Street and south of Ball Road, a larger perimeter affecting more residents.

Evacuation centers were set up Friday morning at the Garden Grove Sports & Recreation Center, at 13641 Deodara Drive, and at Stanton City Hall and the Community Center, at 7800 Katella Ave.

Updates are at the link in our bio.

🎥: Jeff Gritchen, SCNG

Over the next four years, UCI researchers hope to recruit 1,800 Asian Americans living in Orange and Los Angeles counties to participate in a study.

The will be merged with similar pools of information collected at UC San Francisco, UC Davis, Cedars-Sinai and Temple University to create what researchers have named the ASPIRE (Asian American Prospective Research) Cohort, a pool of information from roughly 20,000 people.

Read more at the link in our bio.

📷: Courtesy of UCI Health