{"id":101044,"date":"2025-12-19T10:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101044\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:57:13","slug":"local-fire-departments-demonstrate-rapid-ignition-of-dry-christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101044\/","title":{"rendered":"Local fire departments demonstrate rapid ignition of dry Christmas trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County and Bakersfield fire departments conducted a demonstration to highlight the dangers of dry Christmas trees, which can ignite quickly and lead to devastating fires. <\/p>\n<p>Each year, Christmas tree fires result in property loss, injuries, and sometimes fatalities. Fire causes range from electrical malfunctions to open flames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7ddf1dc4-1696-4a0b-b46a-920254d7846a-Sequence_MILLS_CHRISTMASTREEFIRESAFETY_0001_frame_9331.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have real Christmas trees and artificial Christmas trees &#8211; [they] ignite fairly quickly,&#8221; said Chad Lowe, Public Information Officer of the Kern County Fire Department. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cbdc7ef7-2471-404b-9a08-9c6c89f115dd-Sequence_MILLS_CHRISTMASTREEFIRESAFETY_0001_frame_18699.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officials emphasize safety precautions such as watering real trees daily, using battery-operated flameless candles instead of open-flame candles, keeping trees three feet away from heat sources like fireplaces and radiators, and unplugging holiday lights before leaving home or going to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County and Bakersfield fire departments conducted a demonstration to highlight the dangers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-101044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}