was first reported<\/a> as a rubbish fire. <\/p>\nAll northbound lanes remained closed south of West Channel Street as of 9 a.m. The California Department of Transportation is waiting for the fire department to put out the fire before going in to assess whether it\u2019s safe to reopen the freeway, agency spokesperson Lauren Wonder said. The tunnel was once an access portal used by an oil refinery that closed years ago, Wonder said. <\/p>\n
The California Highway Patrol closed all northbound lanes at West Channel Street around 10:50 p.m. and all southbound lanes around 3:30 a.m. at West Harry Bridges Boulevard, CHP Officer Mike Nasir said. <\/p>\n
The fire began near a homeless encampment lined with wood, Los Angeles Fire Department Assistant Chief Carlos Calvillo told reporters. Firefighters haven\u2019t been able to get inside the tunnel because of the smoke, heat and intensity. They don\u2019t currently know if anyone is still inside the tunnel, Calvillo said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIts really just a fire we have to be patient with,\u201d Calvillo told KTTV. \u201cIt\u2019s too dangerous to put firefighters in the tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dark, heavy smoke could still be seen emanating from beneath the freeway around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and traffic was bumper to bumper to get off of the freeway at the northbound exit. <\/p>\n
The Port of Los Angeles has so far been unaffected by the freeway closure, port spokesperson Phillip Sanfield said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southbound lanes of the 110 freeway leading to the Port of Los Angeles reopened Tuesday morning after a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":775361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[9761,13257,1582,276,56699,317726,112068,19909,2961,21426,224,5337,25079,40240,317728,317724,36656,317727,317725],"class_list":{"0":"post-775360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-a-m","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-challenge","13":"tag-chief-carlos-calvillo","14":"tag-direction","15":"tag-freeway","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-lane","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-p-m-monday","21":"tag-port","22":"tag-southbound-lane","23":"tag-tunnel-fire","24":"tag-water-supply","25":"tag-west-channel-street","26":"tag-west-harry-bridges-boulevard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116523121192026561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775360","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=775360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}