Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 sounds like fiction, but it was all too real.

Although officials are focused on measuring pressure, the crack eventually could allow authorities to gradually drain the ...

Firefighters on Saturday were trying to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Garden Grove, California, as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the ...

May 25 (Reuters) - Firefighters contending with a dangerously overheating industrial tank of a hazardous chemical in Southern ...

California authorities said on Sunday that a potential crack was found in a damaged industrial tank containing volatile ...

Fire officials said the chemical tank in Garden Grove, California, has begun to stabilize as pressure is released and its internal temperature falls.

Firefighters contending with an overheating tank of hazardous chemicals in southern California said they had eliminated the threat of the tank exploding in an overnight operation, ...

Authorities braced for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 40,000 residents ...

Evacuation orders have been issued in portions of the cities of Garden Grove, Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, Stanton and Westminster.

The Orange County Fire Authority posted a critical update saying a team discovered a potential crack in the 34,000-gallon tank at the GKN Aerospace facility.

At least one person has died, nine people are injured and nine employees remain unaccounted for after a deadly chemical tank rupture Tuesday at a paper plant in Washington state, fire officials said.