{"id":300899,"date":"2026-05-05T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:57:08","slug":"fire-beneath-110-in-san-pedro-has-shut-down-the-freeway-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300899\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire beneath 110 in San Pedro has shut down the freeway \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire burning underneath the 110 Freeway at Channel Street in San Pedro 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> and will require an extended operation as firefighters continue efforts to suppress the blaze, authorities said on Tuesday, May 5.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was first reported about 8:50 p.m. Monday night, May 4, and has led to the closure of the freeway from Channel Street to Harry Bridges Boulevard, Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Lyndsey Lantz said.<\/p>\n<p>When the freeway will reopen was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirefighters moved a lot of debris from that tunnel, however there is a fair amount of construction material, things used to build the freeway that are still burning,\u201d Lantz said. \u201cThose materials cannot be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LAFD found the remnants of a fire believed to have been started by homeless individuals, Lantz said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Traffic is diverted from the 110 Freeway at John Gibson Boulevard. (Photo courtesy of Caltrans)\" width=\"616\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777993028_735_Screenshot-2026-05-05-at-6.32.14-AM-2.png\" \/>Traffic is diverted from the 110 Freeway at John Gibson Boulevard. (Photo courtesy of<br \/>\nCaltrans)<\/p>\n<p>A Caltrans highway engineer is at the scene and LAFD is proceeding cautiously and prioritizing firefighter safety, while working to extinguish the fire inside the confined space, Lantz said.<\/p>\n<p>The freeway has been shut down since just after 10:45 p.m. Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>No injury had been reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>But it was not known if anyone was in the tunnel at the time the fire broke out, Lantz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t located anyone in the tunnel, but obviously with such a confined space, I don\u2019t have confirmation of how deep any of our folks have gotten, so that could be an evolving situation as we get to the end of our operations,\u201d Lantz said.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans and Los Angeles police were on scene helping with traffic control, she said.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire burning underneath the 110 Freeway at Channel Street in San Pedro has shut down all lanes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,47,137,100,1439,136],"class_list":["post-300899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","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\/300899","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=300899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}