{"id":300812,"date":"2026-05-05T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300812\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:38:07","slug":"fire-beneath-110-in-san-pedro-has-shut-down-the-freeway-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300812\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire beneath 110 in San Pedro has shut down the freeway \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are at the scene of an excavation operation beneath the 110 Freeway at Channel Street in San Pedro\u00a0that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigalert.com\/?lat=33.85315&amp;lon=-118.01249&amp;z=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shut down all lanes in both directions<\/a> as they attempt to extinguish a fire inside a freeway tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Fire Department started battling the fire at 7:50 p.m. Monday evening, May 5, and said it believed the blaze was started by people living in a homeless encampment.<\/p>\n<p>LAFD found the remnants of a fire believed to have been started by homeless individuals, said LAFD spokeswoman Lyndsey Lantz.<\/p>\n<p>A Caltrans highway engineer is at the scene and LAFD Incident Command is proceeding cautiously and prioritizing firefighter safety, while working to extinguish the fire inside the confined space, Lantz said.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:49 p.m. the California Highway Patrol said it shut down the 110 Freeway in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Due to construction work on the tunnel, the north and southbound lanes of the 110 will be closed for an unknown duration, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries had been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are at the scene of an excavation operation beneath the 110 Freeway at Channel Street in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,3172,131,133,132,47,137,100,1439,136],"class_list":["post-300812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-harbor-area","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-san-pedro","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300812","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=300812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}