A burning Volkswagen Beetle on the side of the Ventura (101) Freeway spread flames to adjacent brush, closing the westbound freeway briefly west of Las Virgenes Road.
The fire was reported on the north side of the freeway, between Las Virgenes and Lost Hills roads, at 2:52 p.m.
By 3:25 p.m., it had burned up a hillside into grassy wildlands.
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A massive traffic jam ensued, as there are no major alternative routes from the San Fernando Valley to the Thousand Oaks area.
At about 3:30, the CHP reopened just one westbound lane, and they issued a SigAlert as they predicted the other three lanes would be closed for several hours as firefighters worked on the burning hillside.
-City News Service
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