Empty streets and packed shelters across Orange County as thousands wait for toxic leak to end

Source: New York Post

With suitcases in hand and pets in tow, thousands of residents fled northern Orange County as a massive evacuation zone swallowed entire neighborhoods surrounding a contaminated industrial site in Garden Grove. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency after the danger zone ballooned into a nearly 10-square-mile exclusion area stretching across Garden Grove, Anaheim, Stanton, Cypress, Buena Park and Westminster — uprooting as many as 79,000 people.