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The Navy could pay up to $137 million to clean up the site of a World War II blimp hangar in Southern California destroyed in a fire in November, local officials estimate.
A time frame for the cleanup of the debris from the fire has not been determined, officials said.
The Navy has agreed to pay more than $6 million to demolish and remove remnants of a World War II-era blimp hangar in Southern California that was destroyed last month in a fire, service officials said Wednesday.
Orange County, California, officials declared a local state of emergency Thursday night due to the danger posed by the air pollution from the fire at a massive and historic military hangar, which besides asbestos, a carcinogen, was found to contain lead, arsenic, nickel and other heavy metals.
"We're relying on the Navy's resources to clean this up," Tustin Mayor Austin Lumbar said Wednesday.