Driving from Nevada to California? Better wait, trooper says
NBC4 via AP
Smoke rises from vehicles as a fast-moving wildfire swept across a freeway Friday, July 17, 2015, near Hesperia, Calif. The fire swept by desert winds burned on both sides of Interstate 15, the main connector between Southern California and Las Vegas.
Friday, July 17, 2015 | 6 p.m.
Nevada Highway Patrol says travelers planning to drive from Las Vegas to Southern California on Friday night through a mountain pass north of San Bernardino should wait.
Trooper Loy Hixson said a fast-moving wildfire that shut down a section of the freeway in both directions through the Cajon Pass was still a couple hundred miles south of Las Vegas and wasn't causing a traffic backup yet for drivers still in Nevada heading to California.
But Hixson says the California Highway Patrol has said it could take a few hours for the section of freeway to reopen.
Dozens of vehicles were abandoned when the wildfire moved across the freeway lanes destroying several of the cars and trucks.