{"id":182997,"date":"2026-02-18T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182997\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:14:07","slug":"fallen-tree-prompts-temporary-closure-of-southbound-405-freeway-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/182997\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen tree prompts temporary closure of southbound 405 Freeway \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Highway Patrol temporarily closed the southbound 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles due to a tree dangling over the highway. <\/p>\n<p>Crews were working to remove the fallen tree after drivers reported it overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP was diverting traffic off the freeway at the 405 off ramp as the closure stretched from Sunset Boulevard to Wilshire. <\/p>\n<p>The fallen tree was reported at 1:42 a.m. Wednesday in the 11300 block of Albata Street and South Church Lane, adjacent to the 405\u00a0\u00a0Freeway, where it damaged the sound wall, CHP Officer Sergio Garcia told City News Service.<\/p>\n<p>A Sigalert was issued for the closure of the Sunset Boulevard off-ramp and the southbound lanes of the freeway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The freeway reopened around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Highway Patrol temporarily closed the southbound 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles due to a tree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,18817],"class_list":{"0":"post-182997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-west-la"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182997","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=182997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}