Southbound I-5 reopens at Pendleton

Oct. 24, 2007 9:02 AM PT

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Camp Pendleton fire:

The southbound lanes of Interstate 5 reopened about 7:30 a.m., though they were nearly empty and may close again because several spot fires have jumped the highway and were burning on the west side of the freeway, two or three miles north of Las Pulgas Road.

Three large plumes of dark smoke could be seen on the east side of I-5 in Camp Pendleton.

The northbound lanes remained closed; police escorted a couple of cars through every once in a while.

-- Scott Gold

2007 California Wildfires

Scott Gold

Scott Gold is a former senior writer at the Los Angeles Times. Scott grew up in Charlottesville, Va., then graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and a concentration in anthropology. He wrote for newspapers in North Carolina and Florida before joining The Times in 1999. Since then, he has covered a series of national news events, including the Bush-Gore recount in 2000, the terrorist attacks in 2001, the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. He left The Times in 2015.

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