{"id":110482,"date":"2025-12-28T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110482\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:05:07","slug":"gas-line-explosion-in-castaic-prompts-5-freeway-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110482\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas line explosion in Castaic prompts 5 Freeway closure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles County firefighters were responding to a gas line explosion in Castaic on Saturday, which prompted the California Highway Patrol to close a portion of the 5 Freeway and the Fire Department to order residents to shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Department received reports of the explosion about 4:20 p.m. near Ridge Route Road and Pine Crest Place. There were no injuries, said Fire Captain Brian Kight.<\/p>\n<p>CHP closed all lanes of the 5 Freeway at 5:12 p.m. for an unknown duration.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"A landslide in Castaic has ruptured an underground gas line.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766891107_417_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>A landslide in Castaic has ruptured an underground gas line near Northlake Hills Elementary. <\/p>\n<p>(KNN.NEWS)<\/p>\n<p>The shelter-in-place order, issued at 5:40 p.m., spans much of Castaic and advises residents to close all doors, windows and vents, and shut off HVAC systems.<\/p>\n<p>By 6 p.m., the gas company had shut off both sides of the gas line, but firefighters and a hazmat task force continued to respond to a residual leak.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County firefighters were responding to a gas line explosion in Castaic on Saturday, which prompted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5139,852,3747,59222,11057,28272,59220,48,52,51,47,50,49,9355,224,59224,288,59221,27194,59223,20285],"class_list":["post-110482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-castaic","tag-chp","tag-door","tag-fire-captain-brian-kight","tag-fire-department","tag-freeway-closure","tag-gas-line-explosion","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-order","tag-p-m","tag-pine-crest-place","tag-resident","tag-ridge-route-road","tag-shelter","tag-vent","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}