I-5 Closed from Redding to Mt. Shasta Due to New Wildfire

[Tom and Margi]

https://www.kcra.com/article/wildfire-burns-5000-acres-in-shasta-county/23000092
This is the same closure used during heavy winter snow storms.  The only route around is to go to Burney and come back to Mt. Shasta on Highway 89.

 

[Lou Schneider]

Or take CA 299 over to the coast, then 101 north.  Or vice-versa.

The fire spread so rapidly that big rig drivers who couldn't turn their trucks around abandoned them to burn up on the highway and fled on foot:

https://www.kcra.com/article/big-rigs-abandoned-as-wildfire-scorches-california-freeway/23010610

 

[Arch Hoagland]

As of Thursday 9/6/18 at 4pm it is still closed.

 

[RoyM-WO]

I can fully understand the panic, I have seen a fire race jumping from treetop to treetop. No way anybody is going to outrun it.

 

[SargeW]

Scary stuff. I  can't imagine being caught in the MH and running into that inferno.

 

[Tom and Margi]

Or take CA 299 over to the coast, then 101 north.

You're right, Lou!  I wasn't thinking of that route because the I-5 closure is often linked to snow conditions and during those times the CA 299 route to the coast is often closed too.  Thanks for the correction.

 

[BoomerD]

We made that trip twice each direction this summer. The first trip, late June, there was some smoke around Redding from the Carr fire , but no visible sign of the fire or fire damage. When we made the second trip in early August, the smoke was worse, and all the buildings at Hornbrook (where the agricultural inspection station is) were burned to the ground. That area just can't catch a break this year.

Or take CA 299 over to the coast, then 101 north.  Or vice-versa.

The fire spread so rapidly that big rig drivers who couldn't turn their trucks around abandoned them to burn up on the highway and fled on foot:

https://www.kcra.com/article/big-rigs-abandoned-as-wildfire-scorches-california-freeway/23010610

There was a sizeable fire near Cave Junction earlier this summer as well. 299 was closed for a few days IIRC.