La Habra CA (LA County) Hazmat Incident 9/8/26

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From the LA County X Feed:

"HAZMAT | FS192 | 500 S Cypress St #LaHabra | At 11:53 a.m. #LACoFD & @LaHabraPD responded to report of a possible hazardous materials incident. Upon arrival, units found a factory that manufactures industrial chemicals with an orange smoke plume showing from the roof."

From the Carolinas Fire Page on Facebook:

"LA HABRA (LOS ANGELES), CALIFORNIA *HAZ-MAT* 503 S CYPRESS ST, LA HABRA. ONE MILE EVAC RADIUS ORDERED DUE TO INCIDENT INVOLVING NITRIC AND PHOSPHORIC ACID THAT HAS SENT A TOXIC ORANGE-YELLOW HAZE OVER THE AREA. THREE INJURIES REPORTED SO FAR. ON THE INCIDENT: AC4, BC21, COMMAND20, E43, E192, HH411, HH412, HM43, HMT43, INFO1, LHB1, MED3, S49, S191, UAS1, E191, JHAT2, UAS4 (CFP Alerts) [CFP-700] 17:22:00 | ALERT ID: 35849"

Incident has since been mitigated and all evac orders rescinded.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-habra-hazmat-evacuations/

 

[NYBravest82]

looks totally normal for LA in 1970.

 

[entropychaser]

looks totally normal for LA in 1970.

It was long before 1970.

In 1948 my father-in-law started college in Pasadena. He joked that he was there a year before he realized that the San Gabriel Mountain range was just north of campus.

 

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We moved to Riverside CA in September of 1967. In early December, my wife woke me up around 8 AM and shouted at me, "there are mountains out there!!!!" First time we had seen them. After a round of Santa Ana winds, if you were in a relatively flat area, around 4PM you could see a wall of smog marching in from the west. It was eerie.