{"id":308483,"date":"2026-05-10T04:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308483\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:10:18","slug":"all-but-1-lane-of-110-freeway-in-san-pedro-reopened-following-fire-whittier-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308483\/","title":{"rendered":"All but 1 lane of 110 Freeway in San Pedro reopened following fire \u2013 Whittier Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All but one lane of the 110 Freeway in San Pedro was reopened by Wednesday afternoon, May 6, nearly two full days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/2026\/05\/05\/fire-beneath-110-in-san-pedro-has-shut-down-the-freeway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire broke out in an access tunnel underneath the highway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Fire Department officials declared a knockdown of the fire about noon Wednesday and said an assessment by Caltrans engineers, which included the use of a robot and drones, showed no structural damage to the freeway, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Park, a Caltrans spokeswoman, said vacuum trucks would be deployed because the tunnel had filled with water during the firefight.<\/p>\n<p>The fire shut down all lanes of the 110 Freeway Monday night, May 4.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lanes reopened Tuesday morning, May 5, after a Caltrans assessment found no structural damage beneath that side of the freeway, but firefighters continued fighting the blaze underneath the northbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>All of the northbound lanes remained shuttered until Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The access tunnel, which holds inactive lines used by the Phillips 66 refinery before it closed in 2025, is south of Harry Bridges Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was believed to have been started by homeless people, said Lyndsey Lantz, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>No injury had been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All but one lane of the 110 Freeway in San Pedro was reopened by Wednesday afternoon, May 6,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303079,"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-308483","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\/308483","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=308483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}