Several terminals at the Port of Los Angeles were shut down on Friday following a tractor-trailer fire involving lithium-ion batteries. The truck overturned and caught fire near the port on Thursday. Port officials confirmed that APM Terminals, Fenix Marine, Everport, and Yusen Terminals ceased operations as emergency responders continued to work at the site. The Los Angeles Fire Department estimates the fire could burn for up to 48 hours, necessitating the closure of a seven-mile section of California State Route 47, from the Vincent Thomas Bridge to Long Beach, during this period. 'Putting water on this fire and trying to extinguish it would create a bigger hazmat problem, runoff and a bigger cleanup issue,' stated David Ortiz, a public information officer for the Los Angeles Fire Department, to CBS News. 'You could pour millions of gallons of water on this fire and it still might reignite again.' The incident occurred around noon on Thursday when the truck overturned on a stretch of the 47 Freeway at Navy Way, east of the Vincent Thomas Bridge. The resulting fire caused significant traffic backups for tractor-trailers stretching for miles. Despite the disruptions, the Trapac and West Basin container terminals, along with the World Cruise Center, were scheduled to remain operational on Friday. This disruption comes at a time when the Port of Los Angeles is experiencing a surge in container activity, having handled 960,597 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, a 16% increase year-over-year and its busiest month on record outside of the pandemic.