Sentence examples for close highway from inspiring English sources

By early evening, the fire had burned 1,700 acres and forced the California Highway Patrol to again close Highway 101 for 30 miles between Winchester Canyon Road and Highway 246 in Boulton.

The fire, which remained 5% contained as night fell Thursday, forced the California Highway Patrol to close Highway 50 between Sly Park Road and Meyers, cutting off a major route between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.

River flooding could close highways, potentially top levees and threaten some homes and businesses.

Dense smoke from wildfires covered parts of Florida today, threatening to close highways but posing little immediate risk to homes or businesses.

During the past year, smog has forced the city to periodically close highways, cancel flights and even cope with state-run media assaults on health problems caused by poor air quality.

The fire, which began on Saturday near Orlando, covered the area in smoke and combined with fog to close highways in Orange and Osceola Counties for several hours this morning.

Sadr City was mostly quiet on Thursday, with American tanks guarding all main access roads into the capital, and closing highway overpasses and bridges.

There is a truck stop near the Mexican side of the border, officials said, but to the north the area is desolate, and the closest highway is 70 miles away.

Santa Barbara fire explodes to 1,700 acres and again closes Highway 101.  .

The blaze also closed Highway 120, a primary thoroughfare into the park.

The distances from the residential coordinates to the closest highway were computed based on the Swiss map VECTOR25 (Swiss Federal Office of Topography, Wabern, Switzerland).