Fire Engulfs Redwood City Gas Station [PHOTOS]

REDWOOD CITY, CA — A vehicle fire led to an explosion at a Redwood City gas station on Thursday night, firefighters report. The incident happened at a Chevron station located at 710 Woodside Road.

Emergency crews from the Redwood City Fire Department and the Menlo Park Fire Protection District were dispatched to the scene, according to a statement posted online just before 8:51 p.m. Roughly 10 minutes later the fire had been extinguished, but the gas station sustained damage as a result of the blaze.

The Redwood City Fire Department later posted images from the scene that were obtained via video by a neighbor. In them, a large fire can be seen consuming a red car and the gas station's shade structure. A large plume of smoke emitted from the structure.

Images of this evening's car fire, from video captured by a neighbor in an adjacent apartment building.#redwoodcityfiredepartment #redwoodcity #bayareafirefighter #firefighterposts #chiefmiller
A post shared by RCFD (@redwoodcityfire) on Jul 13, 2017 at 10:22pm PDT

Following the incident, westbound Woodside Road was closed near Hudson Street for roughly half an hour.

Additional information about the cause of the fire was not immediately available.

— Image courtesy: Redwood City Fire Department / Bay City News Service contributed to this report