Officials advised motorists to continue to expect heavy delays and to use alternate routes as much as possible.
Caltrans said that now that the wall has stopped smoldering, materials, structural and geotechnical engineers were able to conduct field reviews and found that some of the vertical steel columns were warped, wall tiebacks were broken and horizontal anchors into the dirt may have been damaged.
Engineers took steel samples and will have them tested in a laboratory in Sacramento on Tuesday. No timetable was available for the full re- opening of the northbound freeway. Meanwhile, firefighters laboring under intense heat continued making dogged progress against the fire, with containment up to 98% as of Monday.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Angeles National Forest were working as a unified command. Cal Fire, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol were also assisting.
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