Youth react to Chevron refinery disaster

On the night of Monday, August 6, residents of Richmond, California were advised to seek shelter indoors due to a series of explosions resulting in a large fire at the Chevron oil refinery, the largest refinery in Northern California. The fire sent billows of black smoke skyward, which rose high enough to be seen for miles throughout the Bay Area.Richmond Pulse collected blogs and reactions by local youth in the hours immediately following the recent refinery disaster, which, according to the California Emergency Management Agency, released sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, hydrogen oxide, sulfuric acid and nitrogen dioxide into the air."I’m not too concerned about who’s to blame. I’m more concerned about what the next steps are to prevent things like this from ever happening again." Read more youth perspectives on the explosion on Richmond Pulse.