Overview
- A truck caught fire and flames spread into roadside brush, and officials said the blaze grew to about 15 acres and was spreading at a moderate rate.
- The Angeles National Forest issued an evacuation warning for Paradise Ranch Estates Mobile Home Park on Templin Highway and Los Angeles County Fire sent engines there as a precaution.
- Caltrans closed the three right lanes of northbound Interstate 5 and a Sigalert was issued, creating major traffic disruptions on a key regional route.
- County fire crews and Angeles National Forest teams remain on scene working to extinguish and contain the active, developing fire with updates expected as containment progresses.
- Summer dry conditions make vehicle-origin fires likely to jump into vegetation and mobile home communities are especially vulnerable, so officials may expand evacuations or reopen lanes depending on containment progress.