The traffic nightmare began shortly after midnight Saturday, when a fire started in a storage lot on the 1700 block of E 14th Street below an overpass, burning through parked cars, trailers and wood pallets on both sides of the highway. The inferno was so intense that a fire truck was damaged, and "firefighters also had to work around downed high tension wires when a cross arm fell on 14th street, potentially energizing the water flowing in the gutter," the Los Angeles Fire Department wrote in a statement.
Drivers on I-5 and State Route 60 are being diverted to Highway 101, while eastbound drivers on I-10 will have to exit at Alameda St. Motorists should check with Caltrans before heading out.
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