Shelters open for evacuees impacts by hazmat crisis in Southern California

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (NBC, KYMA) - A number of shelters have opened to take in evacuees impacted by the hazmat crisis in Garden Grove, California, and many are already at capacity.

Meanwhile, fire crews are still fighting to try and cool off that tank.

"I have my wife, my children...a boy that's three-years-old, a girl that's 11-years-old. My parents," said Binh Le, an evacuee.

Families prepared for a second night inside the Freedom Hall Evacuation Center, with many saying they're just glad they found a place to go.

"I went from my house to Westminster Senior Center, senior center to here," said Loyd Joseph Lindsey, another evacuee.

"There's a chemical like over there near our house. Like all the way over there. And we had to move here," said Connor Bo, another evacuee who has been at the shelter for two days.

When asked if he was able to grab anything as he was rushing out of his home, Lindsey said, "Quick. I was quick. I grabbed a couple...important things. I just grabbed what I could then basically left the house."

The shelter is full, but one family stayed in a tent in the parking lot, a choice they say they made instead of going into the center.

"There's no like...privacy in there. I think I'm just thinking of the positive side of this rather than the negative side because I think people should do that," said Santiago Soriano, another evacuee.

There was a lot of that positive side, with one man dropping off cases of water and a free, hot dinner for evacuees.

What is remarkable? Every single person filled with questions of what's to come is also filled with gratitude.