{"id":170861,"date":"2026-02-09T21:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:32:46","slug":"man-found-dead-after-downtown-bakersfield-commercial-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170861\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead after downtown Bakersfield commercial fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was found dead after a fire broke out in downtown Bakersfield early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Fire Department was called to a reported commercial structure fire on February 9, 2026, at around 2:50 a.m. on F Street and 22nd Street.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving firefighters found active fire conditions and initiated an interior fire attack along with a primary search.<\/p>\n<p>BFD said during the search, a victim, identified as a male, was found inside the structure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man was found dead after a fire broke out in downtown Bakersfield early Monday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/93a9e00d-66c9-4326-a22f-04cc1241fb43-Sequence_EVERT_020922ANDF_0001_frame_13193.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man was found dead after a fire broke out in downtown Bakersfield early Monday morning. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Fire Department is currently investigating the commercial structure fire.<\/p>\n<p>The origin and cause of the fire, as well as the cause of death, are unknown at this time and remain under investigation, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A man was found dead after a fire broke out in downtown Bakersfield early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-170861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170861","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=170861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}