Workers spent Wednesday evening clearing the remnants of a burned semi-truck from the 5 Freeway so that authorities could reopen all northbound lanes to traffic. About 4 p.m., the California Highway Patrol closed northbound lanes at Lake Hughes Road in Castaic because of the blaze. The southbound lanes were closed only briefly, and by 7 p.m., two northbound lanes were open. Firefighters from Angeles National Forest and the Los Angeles County Fire Department worked together to extinguish the truck and the quarter-acre brush fire caused by the burning big rig. The brush fire did not grow quickly and was held to a small patch of grass and brush.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2020 00:56 UTC