The northbound Glendale Freeway was closed briefly for a small brush fire Wednesday afternoon while, to the south, fire crews battled a blaze in Orange County that quickly consumed more than 200 acres.<\/p>\n
Authorities responded to the Glendale blaze, dubbed the York fire, next to California 2 near Round Top Drive around 4:50 p.m Wednesday, said Fire Department spokesperson Jamie Stewart. <\/p>\n
The fire, initially reported by the department as a quarter-acre \u201ctopography driven fire with no wind,\u201d grew to 2 acres, Stewart said.<\/p>\n
According to the California Highway Patrol, shortly after 5 p.m., the Fire Department asked law enforcement to briefly shut down all lanes of the northbound 2 so a water tanker could be transported to battle the York fire.<\/p>\n
The full closure lasted about three minutes, said Sgt. Christian Stevens, a CHP spokesperson. But as of 6 p.m., two lanes of the northbound Glendale Freeway were still closed, as were the York Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard northbound on-ramps. No reopening time has been set, according to Stevens.<\/p>\n
Stewart said around 100 Fire Department personnel and 17 fire engines were assigned to the 2-acre fire. No structures were threatened. By about 6 p.m., forward progress had been stopped, with crews remaining at the site to mop up, Stewart said. No injuries were reported, according to the Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in Orange County, the Gibby fire quickly burned 216 acres near Rancho Mission Viejo and San Juan Capistrano. It ignited near Ortega Highway and Gibby Road around 3 p.m., according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. <\/p>\n
The blaze spurred the closure of eastbound Ortega Highway at Gateway Place and westbound at Grand Avenue in Lake Elsinore, according to the CHP. <\/p>\n
Shelter-in-place orders were in effect for a few hours. Forward progress of the blaze was halted about 7:30 p.m., according to the Orange County Fire Authority. Ortega Highway remained closed from Gateway to Grand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The northbound Glendale Freeway was closed briefly for a small brush fire Wednesday afternoon while, to the south,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18064,7213,7,9,8,178647,3802,11057,178646,178645,178643,611,178644,47240,26109,11060,178648],"class_list":["post-451981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-acre","tag-blaze","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-christian-stevens","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-full-closure","tag-glendale-brush-fire","tag-glendale-freeway","tag-orange-county","tag-ortega-highway","tag-p","tag-stewart","tag-wednesday-afternoon","tag-york-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451981","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=451981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}