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Vehicle fire causes lane closures on southbound I-5 

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I-5, Los Angeles, CA
A vehicle caught fire on the southbound freeway, leading to the closure of multiple lanes for safety. Emergency services responded to handle the situation.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles City Fire and EMS Dispatch - North Division
02:51

Transcript:
there's DashTaker 1818.18. Most locations can be Balboa crossing. Metro from Balbo, I see. I see you go. Can you check with CHP and see what they have closed? It looks like we still have a lot of traffic coming southbound on the 5. I'm going to need the number 3, 4 and 5 lane closed, southbound 5 on the auto route. you, Roger. It's southbound. I have auto route, lanes 345 closed. So shut down Balboa from foothill to Old Road, all of the truck route. Metro from water standard 77. Can you attach us to Southbound 5 at Balboa and show? IC Metro[2] Channel 8. Metro from 8772 at the address of the call RP State Station do not call 911. Any further information? 72 Roger sent by. Metro LA County Battalion 6[3] and Water Tender 128[1] in route. to the vehicle fire in Balboa. The county battalion says harder. Metro from Balboa, I.C. Go. Metro, Balbao IC, IC. Can you confirm it? engine 90 engine 7 water tender 77 Ellie County battalion 6 and water tender 128 responding okay Roger I copy that and if you can get them to close the northbound 5 lanes 1 2 and 3 as well there's northbound 5 1 2 and 3 Rescue 903, rescue 903, pressing route. Metro Balbo, IC, let me know when you've talked to CHP to confirm they're going to close the northbound lanes.

Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Water Tender 128: Specialized Firefighting Water Supply Unit
[2]
IC Metro: Incident Command Metro
[3]
Battalion 6: Fire Department Battalion Command Unit

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I-5, Los Angeles, CA

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