Wildfire jumps freeway
Highway 15.between Vegas and LA..this afternoon (Friday) wildfire jumped the Cajon Pass....no one injured my but man..scary...20 vehicles burned..two of them semi's. A good time to think....
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Anyone that has NOT driving this section has no clue.
There is NO place to turn around
There are no other routes/options
Traffic...Friday afternoon....stop/go-----slow moving
One normally does NOT drive thru a wall of smoke.
Fortunately it was NOT as tragic as it could have turned into
All this is true and in addition to the wind driven fire and smoke there is construction in the area and lane numbers and widths change all over the place. The wind was not a Santa Ana it was a N/W wind. S/B traffic is close to stopped at that time of afternoon and one or two stopped vehicles will stop all three lanes and there will be grid lock. Also the CHP stopped traffic due to the smoke. And then the wind changed slightly and the fire jumped the interstate. Until last week there was north bound and south bound traffic on the S/B side of the interstate in that area.
