Transportation
Los Angeles Braces for Long Traffic Nightmare After Freeway Fire
- Section of I-10 freeway closed indefinitely as damage assessed
- System is vital for commuters, and cargo trucks from busy port
The Interstate 10 freeway a day after a large fire burned below, shutting the freeway to traffic, in Los Angeles, on Sunday, Nov. 12.
Photographer: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Arson was to blame for a blaze underneath a Los Angeles freeway, causing a traffic nightmare by indefinitely shutting down Interstate 10, an artery that carries 300,000 vehicles a day south of downtown in the second-largest US city.
“We know that the origin of this fire is arson,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said at a news conference Monday.