Head’s Up: a vehicle fire has the 10 freeway all backed up

Freeway
(Ryan Blondell)

Update: all lanes are now open.

A vehicle fire has things backed up pretty good on the 10 freeway.

Ryan Blondell sent us the photo above at 2:45 p.m. on Friday showing the traffic jam. KESQ reports that several lanes were shut down on the westbound I-10 west of Washington Street after a car-hauler truck caught fire at 2 p.m.

The Desert Sun reports that traffic is backed up to about a half-mile just east of Jefferson Boulevard.

The fire was quickly contained, but there is no word yet on how long cleanup will take.