God I'm so glad I live in California. We're not perfect by any means but:
I used to live about 2 BLOCKS from a refinery and never had that experience. The one time there was even a vague issue that "might" have impacted health the FD came by and were like "GTFO were evacuating the area" and I went home that night to a safe and mot-covered-in-bullshit home.
And the supreme Court thinks making that normal everywhere is bad.