Huge Oil Refinery Fire San Francisco Bay

Huge fire erupts at San Francisco Bay oil refinery

"A huge fire has broken out at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California as more than 160,000 residents were being warned to stay indoors to protect themselves from the hazardous smoke.
At least two large blazes erupted at the refinery sending thick plumes of black smoke into the air over the San Francisco Bay-area plant.
Fire crews are fighting to contain the blaze, which erupted at 6.15pm, and can be seen for miles across the city. There have been no fatalities, one of the refinery workers was injured with non life-threatening burns. The cause of the fire is not yet known."


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...000-residents-stay-indoors.html#ixzz22q1Jl8Z3

 

Flames still burning but crews contain Chevron oil refinery blaze

August 6, 2012 | 11:17 pm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/crews-contain-chevron-oil-refinery-fire-richmond.html

 

wow!

 

Tragic to say the least. Anybody wonder why they had all those private firefightes handling it primarily? besides the fact that they where already on site. wouldnt it be best handled with the private and the public firefighters working together? pooling resources and all? idk just wondering is all. thanks for the story aeri

 

All that smoke blowing straight to Oakland...

 

I'm surprised your can see the smoke... with how dirty their air already has to be

 

hope they dont try to jack prices again

 

I lived within blocks of that refinery. Housing's surprisingly cheap! lol
Saw it burn two or three times in the thirty+ years I lived inSF.

 

They've been looking for an excuse... I can't see why they wouldn't jack the prices.

 

My original home-town. Was born in Richmond, back when it had the Kaiser Shipyards making warships. My dad was one of the thousands of workers who went to that place. Guess it is still heavy industry.

Also interesting is how many stories about the US I don't hear about in the US. Have to get our news from the Daily Mail UK.

 

Not that old rag surely? It used to be a quality newspaper 20 or 25 years. Now it's just sensationalist and caters to the racist right wing nuts. The comments on the articles are shocking! Sometimes I can't read them as I seriously find them upsetting.

 

Just report it...

 

Agreed. It dosen't take much. Also I really hate to see something like this. The smog is already so bad out there. I have family in San Francisco so it hits close to home. Not that it should matter. This is bad for everyone.

 

yea really wtf?

 

Id be careful about what you read from the daily mail. They are extremely biased and a lot of their articles are very one sided. There's also been claims that some of their stories have no official evidence to back them up..
I stopped bothering with the daily mail after they bashed breastfeeding in public! Grrrr!