{"id":426921,"date":"2026-08-08T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426921\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:24:08","slug":"ridge-fire-in-northern-los-angeles-county-forces-complete-closure-of-i-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426921\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridge Fire in northern Los Angeles County forces complete closure of I-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brush fire near Gorman in northern Los Angeles County has prompted the full closure of\u00a0 I-5 as crews work to slow the spread, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, dubbed the Ridge Fire, was first reported at 3:02 p.m. and quickly spread to about 100 acres by 3:41 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if any structures were threatened or injuries were reported, but according to Cal Fire, an evacuation order was issued in a portion of Hungry Valley after the blaze jumped I-5.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation warnings were issued in the following zones:<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County<\/p>\n<p>GOR-E001-AGOR-HUNGRYVALLEY-A<\/p>\n<p>Kern County<\/p>\n<p>A map of evacuation zones can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/en\/map\/34.808729%2C-118.831301\/hazards\/baf0d8b7-48fa-43f7-a249-349644693c63?lat=34.7991&amp;lng=-118.8289&amp;z=11.6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued if you are along I-5 freeway between Highway 138 and LA County line,&#8221; the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said. &#8220;PREPARE to leave if you live here or are nearby. Consider leaving now if you need more time to evacuate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Images captured by a camera operated by ALERTCalifornia and UC San Diego showed large plumes of smoke covering the hillsides.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Fire Department initially requested that the northbound lanes of I-5 be shut down between Vista Del Lago and Smokey Bear roads. The southbound lanes were later closed, with traffic being turned around at Frazier Mountain Park Road.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not yet clear when the roadway will reopen.<\/p>\n<p>I-5 is a major roadway between Southern California and Central and Northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brush fire near Gorman in northern Los Angeles County has prompted the full closure of\u00a0 I-5 as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-426921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426921","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=426921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}