Fire at refinery near Manhattan Beach prompts evacuation, El Segundo CA
Fire & ArsonA fire broke out at the Chevron refinery near Manhattan Beach. Authorities considered evacuating residents in nearby areas. Flames were visible, and water was being used to control the fire. There was no current risk of explosion, but a possible gas release was discussed. The fire caused traffic congestion and attracted many onlookers, requiring police for crowd and traffic control.
Audio|Source: South Bay Fire: Culver City, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance
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Transcript:
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Okay, I'm going to keep a quint and three engines at this time, and then let me know we're going to need them or not.
00:10
I copy that.
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Can you give me those units, uh, unit numbers, please?
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Give me a couple of minutes. I'm going to see who I'm going to release and who I'm going to keep.
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Copy.
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I see you from California.
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Go ahead.
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I know we're unified commands, we can talk to Chevron to confirm this, but I'm here with Sammy from Chevron.
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And he is recommended that we evacuate the evacuation from Manhattan Beach side. Can you confirm with Chevron because I need to know how much,
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how far in are we going to evacuate Manhattan Beach?
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921.
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Can you go ahead and repeat that?
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I'm here with a rep from Chevron and he is recommending that we do evacuate residents on the Manhattan Beach site.
01:07
By they've already evacuated the entire isomax plant.
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I'll find out about your area of Manhattan. Stand by.
01:17
And then I need to know how far of an evacuation for the residents so we can put it on a look of note.
01:28
Attention, engine 61,
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0-551 Avenue A, Adam, water coming out of a manhole cover, and all the street,
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flowing down the street, engine 61.
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RA 93, Engine,
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BLS 93, Traffic Collision Rescue Rescue, in front of 33, 33, 33, 3318, Artesia Boulevard, map page 81.
02:08
Get under wind blow in due east.
02:18
Battalion 2-1 from Chevron, I see. I spoke with Chevron.
02:23
They are stating there's no issue right now with any explosion or anything like that. They're not worried for evacuation in your area, and they want to possibly evacuate,
02:34
top golf to the east for any H-2S release, but even that is burning off as well. So right now, no imminent danger.
02:46
About today, we don't our trusted tool on stations at 18.
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Command Engine 6U stage at 82 as well.
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Command copy.
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And, Battalion, 6-1, staging in K2 as well. Be advised,
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Channel Command, you do have a significant traffic pile-up at Rosecrans and PCH, a large number of onlookers that will need to be evacuated by PD at some point, either Manhattan or else can a PD.
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CommandCopy, South Bay, do you copy that traffic? We need PD for traffic control on Rosecrans.
03:31
Sir Bruncombein, I shall be copy.
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For I see from LA County to 1018.
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Go ahead, time, 18.
03:46
Yeah, I got identifiers for the resources that I'm going to hold until you let us go when you're ready.
03:55
Go ahead.
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Engine 160.
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Engine 18. Quint 161.
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BC18 and BC20.
04:09
And we're going to hold here at Pacific and Rosecrans unless you need a BC somewhere else.
04:18
I copy that. Yeah, just stand by. They're depressurizing this right now. It looks like we're getting a lot of flame going down.
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And we're getting a little bit of water on it with Chevron units.
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So stand by for me there.
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Location mentioned:
Near W El Segundo Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245
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