{"id":476183,"date":"2025-12-28T02:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476183\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T02:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:37:13","slug":"gas-line-explosion-in-castaic-prompts-5-freeway-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476183\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas line explosion in Castaic prompts 5 Freeway closure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Los Angeles County firefighters were responding to a gas line explosion in Castaic Saturday, which prompted California Highway Patrol to close a portion of the 5 freeway and the fire department to order residents to shelter-in-place.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County Fire Department received reports of the explosion around 4:20 p.m. near Ridge Route Road and Pine Crest Place. There were no injuries, said Fire Captain Brian Kight.<\/p>\n<p>CHP closed all lanes of the 5 freeway at 5:12 p.m. for an unknown duration.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"A landslide in Castaic has ruptured an underground gas line.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766889433_486_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>A landslide in Castaic has ruptured an underground gas line near Northlake Hills Elementary. <\/p>\n<p>(KNN.NEWS)<\/p>\n<p>The shelter in place order, issued at 5:40 p.m., spans much of Castaic and advises residents to close all doors, windows and vents, and shut off HVAC systems.<\/p>\n<p>By 6 p.m., the gas company had shut off both sides of the gas line, but firefighters and a hazmat task-force continued to respond a residual leak.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County firefighters were responding to a gas line explosion in Castaic Saturday, which prompted California Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,9748,31205,6290,215725,20781,86703,215723,2961,224,5337,8145,17820,215727,11449,215724,22209,215726,45000],"class_list":{"0":"post-476183","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-castaic","11":"tag-chp","12":"tag-door","13":"tag-fire-captain-brian-kight","14":"tag-fire-department","15":"tag-freeway-closure","16":"tag-gas-line-explosion","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-order","21":"tag-p-m","22":"tag-pine-crest-place","23":"tag-resident","24":"tag-ridge-route-road","25":"tag-shelter","26":"tag-vent","27":"tag-window"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115794873155435072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476183","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=476183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}