{"id":342786,"date":"2026-06-02T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342786\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:43:08","slug":"cactus-fire-near-5-freeway-in-southern-california-creates-major-traffic-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342786\/","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Fire near 5 Freeway in Southern California creates major traffic backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-02-001910-e1780384837454-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1114703\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Firefighters were able to quickly stop a brush fire burning near the 5 Freeway in Castaic, but not before it caused a major traffic backup and shelter-in-place orders issued.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was reported shortly after 2:30 p.m. Monday near the northbound 5 Freeway in Castaic. Some structures were apparently in the path of the fire, which was running uphill.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called Cactus Fire scorched at least 4 acres as it burned in medium fuel. Crews set up structure protection units as the flames advance.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol requested a full freeway shutdown at Lake Hughes Road at 2:43 p.m., according to their traffic information site.<\/p>\n<p>A shelter-in-place order was issued for area residents, according to CHP. Possible evacuation orders were initially requested, the CHP log showed.<\/p>\n<p>At about 3:30 p.m., all orders were lifted as crews reported that the fire\u2019s forward progress had been stopped.<\/p>\n<p>KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Firefighters were able to quickly stop a brush fire burning near the 5 Freeway in Castaic, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,15102],"class_list":["post-342786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-wildland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342786","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=342786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}