{"id":426955,"date":"2026-08-08T01:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426955\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:12:15","slug":"brush-fire-burning-near-los-angeles-kern-county-line-in-gorman-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426955\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire burning near Los Angeles-Kern County line in Gorman \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A smoky brush fire near the Los Angeles-Kern County line that ballooned to 1,000 acres prompted a freeway closure and evacuations Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Ridge Fire was reported in Gorman, a community in northwestern LA County, at around 2:45 p.m. Less than two hours later, the blaze jumped the 5 Freeway, north of California State Route 138, and continued burning on both sides, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said the 5 Freeway was shut down on the southbound side at Frazier Mountain Park Road and northbound side at Smokey Bear Road.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/en\/map\/34.808747%2C-118.831322\/hazards\/baf0d8b7-48fa-43f7-a249-349644693c63?lat=34.8087&amp;lng=-118.8313&amp;z=12.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">evacuation order and warnings<\/a> for the areas surrounding the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ridge-Fire-evacs.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"The areas under an evacuation order (red) and warnings (yellow) just before 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGenasys ProtectGenasys Protect<\/p>\n<p>The areas under an evacuation order (red) and warnings (yellow) just before 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial footage from NewsChopper4 showed thick white smoke and poor visibility in the area. Cars were seen making U-turns on the freeway due to the extensive delays.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A smoky brush fire near the Los Angeles-Kern County line that ballooned to 1,000 acres prompted a freeway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3936,48,6105,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-426955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california-wildfires","tag-la","tag-la-county","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\/426955","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=426955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}