{"id":197138,"date":"2025-09-03T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197138\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:28:16","slug":"fatal-crash-sparks-2-brush-fires-along-5-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197138\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Crash Sparks 2 Brush Fires Along 5 Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 One person was killed when a crash sparked two brush fires near the transition between the 405 and 5 freeways in the San Fernando Valley Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>First responders arrived to find one car had veered over the side of the 5 Freeway in Sylmar after 3 p.m. The car at that time was &#8220;fully involved with fire,&#8221; while nearby a quarter acre of brush was also burning, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved one car, which swerved to the right and went over a small cliff and down an embankment near the 405 and 5 interchange, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hometownstation.com\/santa-clarita-news\/scv-emergency\/santa-clarita-fire\/one-killed-after-car-crash-sparks-brush-fire-on-the-5-freeway-near-405-562828\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KHTS reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, the brush fire had grown to 4 acres, the LAFD said.<\/p>\n<p>One person died in connection to the incident, it&#8217;s unclear if the person was injured in the crash or in the subsequent fire.<\/p>\n<p>By 4:20 p.m., forward progress was stopped on the original fire and crews were focusing their efforts on a 1-acre spot fire that jumped to the opposite side of the of the 5 Freeway.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the fire, the truck route from the northbound 405 to the 5 was blocked and the Roxford Street exit off the southbound 5 were both blocked as of 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Some 87 LAFD personnel, along with LA County fire crews, were working on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, CA \u2014 One person was killed when a crash sparked two brush fires near the transition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-197138","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115141076771809182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197138","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=197138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}