CORONA, CA \u2014 A southbound I-15 semi-truck fire led to the lengthy closure south of the 91 Freeway in Corona on Wednesday morning, California Highway Patrol shared. <\/p>\n
The #3 and #4 lanes of southbound I-15 at E. Ontario Avenue remained closed at 10 a.m. due to the fire and subsequent cleanup. CHP estimated the closure would remain in effect until 11 a.m. <\/p>\n
“Please avoid the area by using an alternate route,” they said. <\/p>\n
The trailer fire ignited just after 7:15 a.m., for as-of-yet unidentified reasons. No injuries were reported as the driver self-evacuated at the scene, according to CHP dispatch. <\/p>\n
Corona Fire Department firefighters arrived shortly after, dousing the blaze as passers-by told dispatch the semi “looked like (the semi-truck) may explode.”<\/p>\n
Once the fire was out, the semi-truck caused a 300-foot-long oil leak, which Caltrans then addressed by steam-cleaning the road’s surface and removing all debris. The Sig Alert was put into place shortly before 9 a.m., according to CHP.<\/p>\n
An update will be provided once the lanes are open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORONA, CA \u2014 A southbound I-15 semi-truck fire led to the lengthy closure south of the 91 Freeway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-225583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225583","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=225583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}