{"id":479185,"date":"2026-09-29T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:24:11","slug":"semitrailer-on-fire-shuts-down-part-of-5-freeway-in-sylmar-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479185\/","title":{"rendered":"Semitrailer on fire shuts down part of 5 Freeway in Sylmar, Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SYLMAR, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Several lanes of the Northbound 5 Freeway were shut down in Sylmar after a semitrailer reportedly transporting produce caught on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The vehicle fire was reported just before 8 p.m. near Roxford Street. The incident led to authorities initially closing all lanes of the northbound 5 Freeway in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A SigAlert was issued effectively closing all lanes for at least 30 minutes while crews worked to clear the roadway, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Just before 9 p.m., the CHP said the carpool lane and the #1 lane were open. Around 11:38 p.m., CHP said four lanes would be shut down for approximately six hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AIR7 flew over the scene as firefighters were putting out the flames. It looked like the semitrailer was a complete loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident created a traffic jam. Motorists were asked to avoid the area and use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No further information was immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYLMAR, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Several lanes of the Northbound 5 Freeway were shut down in Sylmar after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[187962,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-479185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-187962","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\/479185","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=479185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}