{"id":450757,"date":"2026-09-02T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450757\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:14:10","slug":"suv-fire-on-northbound-2-freeway-in-eagle-rock-sparks-small-brush-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450757\/","title":{"rendered":"SUV fire on northbound 2 Freeway in Eagle Rock sparks small brush fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, September 2, 2026 6:12AM<\/p>\n<p>A flaming SUV on the busy 2 Freeway in Eagle Rock sparked a small brush fire on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">EAGLE ROCK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A flaming SUV on the busy 2 Freeway in Eagle Rock sparked a small brush fire on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The SUV was seen fully engulfed in flames around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday on the 2 Freeway northbound near Colorado Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flames from the SUV quickly spread up the parched hillside near Glendale, right toward a neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Glendale and Los Angeles fire departments got resources to the scene quickly to protect the nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter assisted with some precision water drops, helping to extinguish the danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Northbound traffic on the 2 Freeway was stopped for a time, but the freeway has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">It&#8217;s unclear what caused the initial SUV fire, but it appears the vehicle is a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, September 2, 2026 6:12AM A flaming SUV on the busy 2 Freeway in Eagle Rock sparked a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[178236,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-450757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-178236","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\/450757","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=450757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}