Letters to the Editor: This is far from the first El Segundo oil refinery fire. Can anything be done?

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To the editor : I’m a third-generation South Bay resident. My father was raised in El Segundo. His father worked for Standard Oil for years, and my father and my uncles worked summer jobs at the refinery. Standard Oil, now Chevron, seemed to have been a responsible community member.

I grew up a block from Standard Oil’s Rosecrans Ave. boundary. One of my earlier childhood memories was the time lightning struck an oil storage tank across Rosecrans. That fire burnt for days, the burning tank spewing black, sooty smoke.

How much lung damage did that cause to residents, particularly children and the elderly? But not many questioned the harm to the community Standard Oil might have bee