CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (KABC) — A 17-mile stretch of the 5 Freeway was shut down Saturday because of a demonstration involving live ammunition in celebration of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary at Camp Pendleton, causing a major traffic gridlock. The closure on both sides of the freeway was from Harbor Drive in Oceanside to Basilone Road near San Onofre, …
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SACRAMENTO — Officials reopened a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 5 but warned of continued traffic delays through the afternoon as live-fire artillery rounds will be shot over the freeway during a military event at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County. Oceanside’s assistant police chief John McKean told The Times around noon that the California Highway Patrol is reopening the …
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Interstate 5 from San Clemente to Oceanside has long been one of California’s traffic choke points, with no other nearby alternative routes between Los Angeles and San Diego. So traffic delays could be significant Saturday with the U.S. military planning to fire live artillery rounds over Interstate 5 in Southern California. The freeway was shut down temporarily Saturday along a …
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SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military anniversary celebration off Camp Pendleton’s coast in San Diego County — where Navy ships are expected to fire over the freeway onto the base. Newsom’s office …
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