{"id":481806,"date":"2026-10-01T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:46:56","slug":"all-northbound-lanes-on-i-5-near-lebec-back-open-after-wednesday-night-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481806\/","title":{"rendered":"All northbound lanes on I-5 near Lebec back open after Wednesday night shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Northbound Interstate 5 near Lebec is back open after a semi-truck crash and fire forced a temporary closure Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP\u2019s website said the incident began on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at around 7:21 p.m. when a semi-truck went into the west escape ramp on northbound I-5.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterward, officials received reports that the semi had caught fire and flames were spreading to nearby grass.<\/p>\n<p>CHP Fort Tejon posted on Facebook that crews shut down northbound I-5 at Lebec Service Road and diverted traffic to eastbound Highway 138.<\/p>\n<p>All northbound lanes are open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Northbound Interstate 5 near Lebec is back open after a semi-truck crash and fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-481806","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\/481806","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=481806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}