A couple of trucks that burned in the Delta Fire remained hot Wednesday night on Interstate 5 north of Redding.(Photo: Damon Arthur / Record Searchlight)

A rapid forest fire in northern California forced the closure of the Pacific Coast's main highway in both directions and suspended Amtrak service in Oregon Wednesday night.

The man-made Delta Fire burns on both sides of Interstate 5 north of Lakehead in Shasta County, California. the deadly Carr Fire near Redding. The fire, which had consumed 5,000 acres at 21:58 According to Inciweb, the PST had been reinforced by "blends of coniferous and decadent brushwood with no recent fire history and heavy dead and low surface fuels".

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The only highway continues to cross the borders of Mexico and Canada, the I-5 road was closed 10 miles north of Redding, south of Mount Shasta. There was no timetable on Wednesday night for the reopening of the highway.

The fire, reported at 12:51, was at zero percent Wednesday night, as firefighter teams described his behavior as "extreme".

While the Delta fire was not an immediate threat to the big cities, the fire destroyed abandoned trucks on I-5 and forced evacuations for residents of the Siskiyou County border, the Redding Record. -Searchlight, part of the USA TODAY network, reported.

The town of Dunsmuir was placed under an evacuation warning late Wednesday night, burning fire about 15 miles, according to the Record-Searchlight.

In a live video of Facebook near the fire, the CHP patrol sergeant. Tim Hinkson said, "This is going to be a mess over there on I-5."

When the highway closed, Hinkson said, "It's too dangerous to let cars pass by."

The Amtrak Coast Starlight service, which connects Sacramento to Klamath Falls, would resume when "conditions permit," a company spokesperson told Record-Searchlight by e-mail.

The Delta fire erupted just six days after the Carr's fire was completely shut down, killing eight people, destroying more than 1,600 structures and burning nearly 230,000 acres in five weeks. The sixth most destructive fire in the history of Golden State cost nearly $ 160 million in enforcement efforts.

At one point, the Carr Fire jumped on the Sacramento River and encroached on Redding, the largest city in the region, forcing mandatory general evacuations and power outages.

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