A fire at the Chevron refinery in California is contained, said employees

California firefighters contained a massive flame overnight in a fuel production ward in the El Segundo refinery of Chevron near Los Angeles.

Residents in El Segundo, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Los Angeles, said they were experiencing a large blast around 9:30 pm local time (04:30 GMT) on Thursday, with orange flames and flows visible around the refinery.

City authorities claim that there are currently no public salaries or evacuation orders. The reason for the explosion is being investigated.

In a statement, Shevron called it an “isolated fire” and said that “all refinery and contractors were reported and there were no injuries.”

“No evacuation orders have been introduced for the residents of the emergency response agencies monitoring the incident and no excess of the monitoring system of the line of the facilities has been found,” the company said.

It is not clear how much damage the refinery suffers from the explosion and the fire.

The Chevron refinery is located near Los Angeles Airport and supplies reactive fuel for its operations, although there was no immediate impact on the facility, La Karen Bass mayor said in a statement.

Airport flights work as usual.

The El Segundo refinery, built in 1911, is the second largest Chevron in the United States and produces 285,000 barrels of raw oil every day.

It supplies one fifth of all fuels for motor vehicles and 40% of the southern California consumed in southern California, Reuters reported.

El Segundo Mayor Chris Pimentel said firefighters were able to respond immediately to the blast.

“Our station is about .25 miles from Shevron’s gates,” Pimentel told reporters. “We are obviously very concerned and there is a lot of investigative work to see what happened.”

The flame was visible to Los Angeles and filled the air nearby with the smell of gasoline.

In addition to the explosion investigation, employees in El Segundo said they were monitoring air quality levels for signs of pollution.

A nearby resident, Mark Rogers, told The Los Angeles Times that the explosion is scary to people nearby.

“I thought we were resetting or something,” Rogers told the local newspaper. Another resident, Keith Moch, said the flames look like “300 feet”.

“I didn’t know if an airplane had crashed or there was an earthquake or both,” he said.

With additional Crystal Hayes reporting in Los Angeles.