{"id":77623,"date":"2017-07-29T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=77623"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T23:44:10","slug":"15-small-fires-along-14-fwy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/07\/29\/15-small-fires-along-14-fwy\/","title":{"rendered":"Series of small fires along 14 Fwy [updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PALMDALE &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>A series of seven small fires that burned along the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway early Saturday in Palmdale and Lancaster were likely ignited by a vehicle with a mechanical failure, not arson, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no evidence of an arson,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s department Arson\/Explosives Detail reported on Facebook at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday. &#8220;It appears the fires are consistent with being caused by a vehicle mechanical failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first fire was reported shortly after 12:30 a.m. Saturday, July 29, on the southbound side of the freeway near Avenue N, authorities said. After that, about 10 to 15 fires were reported from Avenue K to Avenue S, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Ed Pickett.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported that a vehicle was intentionally starting the fire using charcoal briquettes, California Highway Patrol reported.<\/p>\n<p>The largest of the fires burned about two acres, Pickett said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 firefighters were sent to battle the flames.<\/p>\n<p>County firefighters were able to put out all the fires by 2:30 a.m., the CHP reported.<\/p>\n<p>They originally reported at least 15 small fires, but the sheriff&#8217;s department said it investigated seven.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Details in the story have been updated to reflect the most recent information reported by the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211;\u00a0A series of seven small fires that burned along the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway early Saturday in Palmdale and Lancaster were likely ignited by a vehicle with a mechanical failure, not arson, authorities said. &#8220;There is no evidence of an arson,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s department Arson\/Explosives Detail reported on Facebook at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}