Tesoro Fire UDPATE!
That Los Angeles fire at the Tesoro Refinery in Wilmington is out. The Tesoro Refinery fire broke out roughly four hours ago.
Within the last thirty minutes, LAFD confirms the refinery fire is out, after over 120 firefighters responded. The fire started at the 2100 block of East Pacific Coast Highway in Wilmington shortly after 5 am but was contained by roughly 8 am.
The Tesoro Refinery is best known as the former Shell Oil Refinery, sold two years back. Today it reportedly is “the third largest refinery in Tesoro’s system”.
Cause of today’s blaze is under investigation.
File photo above.
Fires, Los Angeles
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on September 25th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
The sunrise was beautiful this morning & then icky smoke from Tesoro fire. Good grief
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