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   LOS ANGELES - A massive fire erupted Thursday night at a refinery in   
   Southern California.   
      
   Firefighters were dispatched around 9:35 p.m. to the Chevron refinery in   
   El Segundo after receiving calls of smoke in the area.   
      
   Images from SkyFOX show large flames shooting through the refinery.   
   Several people said they heard a loud bang, saying it felt like an   
   earthquake or sounded like a plane crash since the refinery is near LAX.   
      
   Fire departments throughout the South Bay were called in to help.   
      
   Rosecrans Avenue from Vista Del Mar to Pacific Coast Highway, and Pacific   
   Coast Highway from Rosecrans Ave to El Segundo Blvd were shutdown and   
   people were urged to avoid the area.   
      
   Luckily, no evacuations in El Segundo were issued.   
      
   What we don't know:   
   It's unclear what caused the fire or if any injuries were reported.   
      
   Witnesses describe moments fire erupted   
   What they're saying:   
   One resident who lives nearby said it felt like an earthquake hit, then   
   she looked outside her house and saw flames nearby.   
      
   "It felt like an earthquake. And then I saw a red flash through our blinds   
   onto the side of the house facing the refinery. We have two windows there.   
   I'm like, that's the refinery. And then I heard the hiss, that is usually   
   the safety flare, but it was way more intense than usual. So I went and   
   got her up. We booked it out the door and there was just nothing but a   
   ball of fire that looked like it could cross the street and come this way   
   towards all the houses on this side," a witness told FOX 11.   
      
   A customer at a nearby Top Golf described the frightening moments she   
   heard a bang and felt rumbling. Several people then started to evacuate   
   from the facility.   
      
   "When we stepped outside you could hear the gas and the flames. It was   
   like roaring really loud. It was really surreal. Everyone was leaving in a   
   panic. It was so close. The explosion when it first happened was gigantic.   
   It was so huge. No one really understood what was going on. And, you know,   
   everyone's initial thought was just to leave. And it was kind of hard   
   getting out of the parking lot with so many people trying to leave that   
   area," said witness Celissa Sanchez.   
      
   The history behind Chevron's refinery   
   Dig deeper:   
   The refinery spans two-square-miles, supplying more than 40% of jet fuel   
   and more than 20% of motor vehicle fuel across all of Southern California.   
   It's the largest producing oil refinery on the West Coast.   
      
   There are 1,000 Chevron employees, 1,000 contractors on any given day and   
   their very own Chevron Fire Department with 24 full-time firefighters.   
      
   The refinery maintains its ability to make roughly 12 million gallons of   
   fuel every day, that's enough gasoline to fill up a million cars a day.   
   When the refinery was built in 1911, the original capacity was 5,000   
   barrels a day, but today it can process 290,000 daily.   
      
   California has approximately 1,300 Chevron stations.   
      
   https://www.foxla.com/news/fire-erupts-chevron-refinery-el-segundo   
      
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