Orange County fire officials TJ McGovern and Craig Covey said on Monday (May 25) that firefighters contending with a dangerously overheating industrial tank of a hazardous chemical in Southern California have eliminated the possibility of the tank exploding after a crack relieved some of the mounting pressure.

A damaged chemical tank in Southern California cracked over the weekend, which authorities were hopeful would relieve pressure and reduce the risk of an explosion.

The tank, which is located in the southeastern corner of the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, holds somewhere around 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate, a highly toxic, highly fla...