Residents described an unsettling scene and blast of heat when a large fire erupted Thursday night at the Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo and produced towering flames that could be seen for miles ...

An aerial view of crews attempting to extinguish a large fire and explosion that occurred at the Chevron Refinery in El Segundo overnight Thursday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) The explosion ...

Videos from the large fire that erupted at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo on Thursday night show flames and smoke that could be seen from miles away. Firefighters from the El Segundo Fire ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (KABC) -- Crews extinguished a massive fire that erupted at a Chevron oil refinery in El Segundo, which sent up large flames and plumes of smoke into the air. The fire broke out ...

An aerial view of Chevron crews attempting to extinguish a large fire and explosion that occurred at Chevron refinery (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The city of El Segundo could not be more ...