All but one lane of the 110 Freeway in San Pedro was reopened by Wednesday afternoon, May 6, nearly two full days after a fire broke out in an access tunnel underneath the highway.
Los Angeles Fire Department officials declared a knockdown of the fire about noon Wednesday and said an assessment by Caltrans engineers, which included the use of a robot and drones, showed no structural damage to the freeway, officials said.
Colleen Park, a Caltrans spokeswoman, said vacuum trucks would be deployed because the tunnel had filled with water during the firefight.
The fire shut down all lanes of the 110 Freeway Monday night, May 4.
The southbound lanes reopened Tuesday morning, May 5, after a Caltrans assessment found no structural damage beneath that side of the freeway, but firefighters continued fighting the blaze underneath the northbound lanes.
All of the northbound lanes remained shuttered until Wednesday afternoon.
The access tunnel, which holds inactive lines used by the Phillips 66 refinery before it closed in 2025, is south of Harry Bridges Boulevard.
The fire was believed to have been started by homeless people, said Lyndsey Lantz, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman.
No injury had been reported.