{"id":174503,"date":"2025-08-25T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174503\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:13:09","slug":"fiery-crash-sparks-traffic-chaos-on-5-freeway-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174503\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery crash sparks traffic chaos on 5 Freeway \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigalert.com\/?lat=34.2762&amp;lon=-118.4736&amp;z=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SigAlert<\/a> has been issued on the southbound 5 Freeway in Mission Hills after a truck that caught on fire early Monday caused a major traffic backup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NewsChopper4 was over the scene where a heavy traffic backup was seen for more than nine miles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It appeared that only one lane was open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bumper to bumper traffic was spotted on the freeway all the way to where the 14 Freeway crosses Golden Valley Road.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers seeking to avoid the traffic can take alternate routes like Sierra Highway down to San Fernando Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SigAlert has been issued on the southbound 5 Freeway in Mission Hills after a truck that caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,39410],"class_list":{"0":"post-174503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-san-fernando-valley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115089821291825884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}