A large fire broke out early Friday at an oil refinery in Philadelphia, rattling the area with at least one booming explosion and lighting up the dark sky with huge balls of gas and flame.

The fire broke out at the 150-year-old refinery complex on the 3100 block of Passyunk Avenue, just after 4 a.m. and reached three-alarms, Philadelphia Fire Department Deputy Fire Commissioner ...

Fire breaks out at crude oil refinery in Philadelphia 06:12. A fire at the largest oil refinery on the East Coast turned the early morning sky a bright orange and yellow and awakened startled ...

A massive fire and series of explosions rocked a South Philadelphia refinery complex, the largest on the East Coast, early Friday morning. The blast jolted people from their sleep and prompted a ...

Refinery owner Philadelphia Energy Solutions has its own fire brigade, and when Fire Dept. responders arrived on scene around 4:45 a.m., they were already beginning work to isolate the fire. The blaze ...

Item 1 of 8 A Philadelphia Fire Department truck attends a massive fire at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc's oil refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. in this June 21, 2019 handout photo.

A massive fire at an oil refinery owned by Philadelphia Energy Solutions on Friday damaged the largest U.S. East Coast plant so badly that it could remain shut for an extended period, according to ...

Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney said he learned from Philadelphia Energy Solutions officials that its South Philly refinery will shut down next month. A fire burns at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions ...

PHILADELPHIA — Last May, an air monitor on the border of the East Coast's largest oil refinery recorded a level of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, more than 21 times the federal limit.

Early in the morning of Sunday, Aug. 17, 1975, a seagoing tanker was off-loading crude oil at the Gulf Oil Refinery in Philadelphia, ... Remembering the Gulf Oil Refinery Fire. Dec. 3, 2010.

Other refineries have been repurposed, it noted, including the Imperial Oil Refinery in Nova Scotia, which became a port terminal after closing in 2013, and a Shell Haven refinery in Britain that ...

On August 17, 1975, an 11-alarm fire engulfed the Gulf Oil refinery in South Philadelphia. The intense flames and smoke casted an eerie shadow over the city. Tragically, eight firefighters lost ...