The Caldecott Tunnel in the Berkeley Hills between Oakland and Contra Costa County in Calif. in October 2012. (Pedro Xing via Bay City News)

An eastbound bore of the Caldecott Tunnel will be closed overnight on three nights this week for maintenance work following a vehicle fire inside the bore earlier last week, according to Caltrans.

Bore No. 2, the left of the two eastbound tunnels that connect Orinda and Oakland on state Highway 24, will be closed from 10 p.m. Monday to 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, as well as at the same time the next two nights.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.