SigAlert: Garbage Truck Ablaze On I-5, Authorities Say

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles city garbage truck was ablaze and causing major closures Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 5 in the San Fernando Valley, authorities said.

The sanitation department truck was reported to be on fire around 3:15 p.m. on southbound Interstate 5 at Osborne Street in Pacoima, according to preliminary reports from the California Highway Patrol, which added that the driver was out of the vehicle with a fire extinguisher.

Authorities issued a SigAlert shortly after 3:30 p.m., closing all southbound lanes. About an hour after the initial incident, two lanes had reopened, the highway patrol's preliminary reports said.

As of 4:25 p.m., emergency personnel were still working to put out the fire, according to the preliminary reports.

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