Fire at Los Angeles-area Chevron oil refinery is contained
LOS Angeles – A massive fire broke out Thursday evening in a chevron oil refinery in the Los Angeles region, sending a fireball in the air and surprising residents, according to officials and videos who captured the scene.
There was no injury, said Chevron. The fire was seen in the refinery around 9:32 p.m. (12:32 p.m.), according to police from the coastal city of El Segundo. The video published on social networks has shown a fireball and the night sky illuminated by flames.
“The staff of the Chevron fire service, including emergency workers in the city of El Segundo and Manhattan beach, actively responds to an isolated fire inside the Chevron El Segundo refinery,” said a spokesperson for Chevron.
Images of helicopters from NBC Los Angeles showed flames from two of the batteries and another area of the Chevron refinery in El Segundo.
The fire was contained later, said the El Segundo police. Chevron said that all employees and entrepreneurs were recorded and that no overtaking has been detected by the installation of installations monitoring system. “”
Manhattan Beach, a coastal city close to the County of Los Angeles, told residents that he was aware of “the unusual fire event” at the Chevron refinery, but that there was no evacuation order. The city told residents to stay inside.
“I saw this thing go up,” said Howard Thorne, a resident from El Segundo for eight years, at NBC Los Angeles. “I never fear anything. This – I went into panic mode when I saw it. I was literally in panic mode.
The Chevron El Segundo is the largest productive oil refinery on the west coast, according to the installation website.
The oil refinery covers approximately 1,000 acres and has around 1,100 miles of pipelines, and it can refine up to 290,000 barrels of crude oil per day, the company said. It provides 20% of all fuel for motor vehicles and 40% of jet fuel consumed in southern California, according to the company.
California Governor Gavin Newsom was informed of the situation, said his office on X.
“Our office is coordinated in real time with local and state agencies to protect the surrounding community and ensure public security,” said the Governor’s office.
At 11 p.m., NBC Los Angeles helicopter images showed that firefighters working to extinguish a flame plume by spraying trucks on scale in part of the installation, while two of the batteries also had flames from their summit.
Jean Lee,, Matthew Mulligan,, Bill Feather,, Todd Miyazawa And Josh Cradduck contributed.
