{"id":110982,"date":"2025-12-28T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:00:11","slug":"suspected-gas-leak-explosion-closes-i-5-in-los-angeles-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110982\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Gas Leak Explosion Closes I-5 in Los Angeles County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">An explosion on Saturday afternoon suspected to have been caused by a gas leak prompted authorities to shut down a major freeway in Los Angeles County and order residents to shelter in place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The California Highway Patrol said it closed all lanes of I-5 in both directions in the area of Castaic, a community of about 18,000 people north of Santa Clarita. There was no estimated time to reopen the freeway, CHP Acting Sergeant Luis Quintero said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion on Saturday afternoon suspected to have been caused by a gas leak prompted authorities to shut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[39011,387,7,48,52,51,47,59497,50,49,17965,25248,1009,435],"class_list":["post-110982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-americas","tag-business","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county-fire-depa","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-materials","tag-megacity","tag-southern-california","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982","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=110982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}