EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Investigators are inspecting the now cooling Chevron El Segundo Refinery after an explosive fire swept through one of its key processing units that might impact prices for auto, truck and aviation fuels. Until Chevron reveals the true extent of the damage, we can't say exactly if and how much prices will go up.

Chevron's 114-year-old El Segundo Refinery is Chevron's second-largest refinery and the largest refinery on the West Coast. It burned from about 9:30 Thursday to mid-morning Friday.

It supplies 20% of L.A.'s voracious gasoline appetite. This refinery is reported to have had four other fires since 2016.

A lengthy bath in raging 500-degree fire, for hours and hours, can soften metal structures supports, tanks, pipes, electrical lines, control boxes, sensors

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