Fire breaks out at oil refinery in Los Angeles

Plumes of smoke towered above a Chevron oil refinery in southern California on Thursday following reports of an explosion. Video clips shared online by residents in El Segundo, a coastal suburb a few miles south of the Los Angeles International Airport, showed a massive fireball rising from the refinery with a loud, extended rumble.

LA County Supervisor told the outlet that firefighter crews contained the blaze to one area of the refinery and that residents did not have to evacuate. The El Segundo facility is the largest oil refinery on the US West Coast, processing more than 276,000 barrels of crude per day.