{"id":427159,"date":"2026-08-08T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427159\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:34:07","slug":"ridge-fire-near-gorman-shuts-down-i-5-through-the-grapevine-for-hours-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427159\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridge Fire near Gorman shuts down I-5 through the Grapevine for hours Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/evacuation-warnings-issued-as-ridge-fire-burns-off-interstate-5-near-gorman-kern-county-los-angeles-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A fast-growing brush fire near Gorman brought traffic on Interstate 5 through the Grapevine to a standstill for hours Friday,<\/a> forcing drivers to change plans and search for alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>The Ridge Fire started just before 3 p.m. near Gorman Post Road and quickly spread across the dry hillside. <\/p>\n<p>At one point, the fire jumped across the interstate, forcing traffic to be diverted. Drivers who were already on the road faced hour-long delays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were looking at our maps and all of a sudden it&#8217;s like, oh, there&#8217;s like a three-hour delay, and we&#8217;re like, what the heck?\u201d Janessa Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua, who was driving from the Bay Area to meet family in Huntington, said he was turned around after the road closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m supposed to be there right now. So I don&#8217;t know what time I&#8217;m going to get there. But yeah, it&#8217;s going to be pretty late. I might not get there until midnight or something,\u201d Joshua said.<\/p>\n<p>With I-5 closed, Martin Iscovic said he was looking at a detour that could add hours to his trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll try to change our way and maybe by Lancaster, and we don&#8217;t know if it will be okay, but it will be maybe three or four hours and not two hours or one and a half hours,\u201d Iscovic said.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday night, the California Highway Patrol said all lanes had reopened, and traffic on I-5 was slowly moving again in both directions after being closed for hours because of the Ridge Fire near Gorman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A fast-growing brush fire near Gorman brought traffic on Interstate 5 through the Grapevine to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-427159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427159","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=427159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}