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(Los Angeles) The spectacular fire that broke out in a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, in the County of Los Angeles, is under control and had no victim, representatives of the company and the county said on Friday.
Chevron spokesperson Allison Cook told AFP that there had been no injuries and that no personal refinery or subcontractor was missing due to the claim, who started on Thursday.
“The staff of the Chevron fire service, including the emergency speakers in the city of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach, reacted actively to an isolated fire inside the Chevron El Segundo refinery,” she said.
An official of the County of Los Angeles, Holly Mitchell, said that the fire was under control. “It has been mastered and there is no reason to worry about El Segundo or the surrounding areas,” she said in a statement.
The causes of the fire are not known, had previously declared the mayor of El Segundo, Chris Pimentel, on a local television channel, saying that no population evacuation had been envisaged.
The fire broke out at around 9:30 p.m. locals on Thursday (0.30 a.m. (eastern time) on Friday). Videos posted on social networks have shown a huge ball of bright fire in a deafening noise. The fire had decreased considerably one hour after the explosion.
Fires in refineries are part of everyday life in South Bay, which houses several major oil production facilities.
In 2022, the firefighters had taken two hours to put out a fire in an installation of El Segundo.
In 2020, a fire at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Carson, in the same region, had projected flames at least 30 meters in the air and aroused worries for hours. But the fire had caused little damage to the refinery operations, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Chevron site in El Segundo is one of the largest refineries on the West Coast dealing with more than 276,000 crude barrels per day.
