2:15 p.m.

KTLA has the details on the big rig crash.

According to Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Philip Brooks, the big rig driver was traveling illegally on Kanan Dume Road, which is off-limits to truck traffic. He noted that many truck drivers have been using Kanan Dume in the past several days because Malibu Canyon Road, the normal truck route, has been closed because of the brush fire in the area.

According to Brooks, the truck driver was traveling at about 70 mph and could not stop as he traveled downhill on Kanan Dume, then ran through the red light at Pacific Coast Highway, slamming into two vehicles. The driver of the first car, a Mercedes, was killed on impact, Brooks said.

The truck also hit a vehicle being driven by a county firefighter on his way to work. The firefighter, who suffered a broken ankle, was trapped in his vehicle, but another driver pulled him from the vehicle before it broke into flames, Brooks said.

The firefighter, who broke his ankle, was safely pulled from the burning car. Is being treated at UCLA Medical Center.

1:10 p.m.

* We hear that two people died in the Kanan crash. Road to remain closed through the afternoon.

Noon

Big rig crash on Kanan sparks a little grass fire. Copters and fire crews all over it.

PCH closed at Kanan. (I only know this because I was thisclose to going shopping in the Valley.)

All traffic being routed - excruciatingly slowly, I might add - through Point Dume.