The blaze that ripped through Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond Monday night could be seen for miles across the bay.

Photographers from across San Francisco and the East Bay eagerly captured the action, as plumes of smoke billowed through the sky, visible from almost any perch.

Did you happen to snap an image or two? We want to see it! Submit your best photos in the slideshow below:

Loading Slideshow...

  • Chevron refinery over Point Richmond.

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NoahC"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NoahC">NoahC</a>:<br />

  • Smoke obscuring the sun

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/VOOOLN"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/twitter_profile_img/3704700.png" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/VOOOLN">VOOOLN</a>:<br />Taken at 7pm in Richmond, two miles from the Chevron refinery.

  • Chevron refinery from Point Richmond.

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NoahC"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NoahC">NoahC</a>:<br />

  • Chevron refinery from Point Richmond living room.

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NoahC"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NoahC">NoahC</a>:<br />

  • Chevron refinery explosion captured as it happened

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DrewDell"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/460318-tiny.png?20091110142242" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DrewDell">DrewDell</a>:<br />Photo: Drew Dellinger

  • Chevron refinery explosion captured as it happened

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DrewDell"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/460318-tiny.png?20091110142242" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DrewDell">DrewDell</a>:<br />Photo: Drew Dellinger

  • Chevron Oil REfinery FIre

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/jrdenkin"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/aol_profile_img/3705541.png" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/jrdenkin">jrdenkin</a>:<br />

  • Chevron explodes

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/MichaelJ2006"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/MichaelJ2006">MichaelJ2006</a>:<br />Looking west from Richmond CA.

  • Chevron refinery fire 1

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/cwishard"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/cwishard">cwishard</a>:<br />Taken from the richmond bridge at 6:35 pm.

  • First plume of smoke.

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/cwishard"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/cwishard">cwishard</a>:<br />First sign of trouble on the richmond bridge, 6:35 pm

  • plume

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd">merigorownd</a>:<br />Plume of smoke over my house from the Chevron Refinery fire.

  • Chevron Refinery Fire

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd">merigorownd</a>:<br />Chevron Refinery Fire from a tower behind the plant

  • Chevron Refinery Fire

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd">merigorownd</a>:<br />Chevron Refinery Fire from a tower behind the plant. (Photo: Mimi Vitetta)

  • Chevron Refinery Fire

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/merigorownd">merigorownd</a>:<br />A view inside the neighborhood, the Iron Triangle. (Photo: Mimi Vitetta)

  • From Kensington

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/rododu"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/1148340129/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/rododu">rododu</a>:<br />

  • Richmond Chevron fire from SF/Oakland ferry

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hailfromsf"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hailfromsf">hailfromsf</a>:<br />Photo of Richmond Chevron refinery fire, taken minutes after black cloud formed, from the SF/Oakland ferry.

  • Chevron Oil Fire as seen from Mill Valley in Marin County

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/prthatrocks"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://graph.facebook.com/1074196206/picture?type=square" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/prthatrocks">prthatrocks</a>:<br />Chevron Oil Fire as seen from Mill Valley in Marin County. Krista busts into the apartment and says, "What is going on with all that smoke?" As seen from our houseboat from the Commodore Marina next to the Seaplane Adventures dock in Mill Valley. The smoke is rising over Tiburon in the distance.

  • Chevron refinery fire.

    <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/gjmurphy"><img style="float:left;padding-right:6px !important;" src="http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/gjmurphy">gjmurphy</a>:<br />Taken in Point Richmond, 8/6/12 at 7pm


Earlier on HuffPost: