{"id":489832,"date":"2026-10-09T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489832\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:12:09","slug":"brush-fire-prompts-hard-closure-on-5-freeway-in-gorman-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489832\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush fire prompts hard closure on 5 Freeway in Gorman \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fast-moving brush fire in the Gorman area was prompting evacuations and a hard closure on Interstate 5 on Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 150-acre Danny Fire sparked near the I-5 and Smokey Bear Road around 4:50 p.m., according to Cal Fire. It was 0% contained.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities issued an evacuation order for those west of Old Ridge Road and east of the I-5 near Bald Mountain. Evacuation warnings were in effect for areas north of Hungry Valley Road, west of the 5 to the Los Angeles County border, north of Lancaster Road and west of Three Points.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evacuation information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/en\/map\/34.729339%2C-118.796539\/hazards\/22aecf2e-9675-4b7b-bc4b-9296cb98e3d9?lat=34.7293&amp;lng=-118.7965&amp;z=10.6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gorman-fire-map-2.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"A map showing the areas under evacuation orders (red) and warnings (yellow) for the Danny Fire on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGenasys ProtectGenasys Protect<\/p>\n<p>A map showing the areas under evacuation orders (red) and warnings (yellow) for the Danny Fire on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>A hard closure was also in place for northbound I-5 at Smokey Bear and southbound 1-5 at State Highway 138, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fast-moving brush fire in the Gorman area was prompting evacuations and a hard closure on Interstate 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3936,48,6105,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-489832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california-wildfires","tag-la","tag-la-county","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\/489832","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=489832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}