Chevron’s huge El Segundo refinery outside Los Angeles experienced a massive fire in a jet fuel production unit Thursday night, resulting in tremendous flames and billowing smoke from one of the biggest refineries on the US West Coast.
Allison Cook, a spokesman for Chevron, said in an emailed statement that all employees at the facility had been accounted for and that no injuries had been reported.
The cause of the explosion at the facility that provides aircraft fuel to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the El Segundo area was not immediately known. By early Friday, the refinery was contained, according to local media.
According to the two sources, the Isomax 7 unit of the refinery, which turns mid-distillate fuel oil into jet fuel, was where the fire started.
