{"id":213292,"date":"2026-03-10T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213292\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:06:08","slug":"bakersfield-native-stranded-in-qatar-is-now-safe-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213292\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield native stranded in Qatar is now safe in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A Bakersfield native who had been stranded in Qatar for weeks amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran is now safe.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Starkey wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday that he made it out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the government can&#8217;t get you out, a BUNCH of money will when you find the right person,&#8221; Starkey said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, Starkey was in Frankfurt, Germany. He had been stranded at an industrial camp in Qatar as fighting between the U.S. and Iran escalated around him. Starkey has a wife and two children back home in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A Bakersfield native who had been stranded in Qatar for weeks amid escalating tensions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[97951,151,155,153,152,97952,97953,47073,95209,97954,97955],"class_list":["post-213292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-americans-stranded-abroad","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-frankfurt-germany","tag-iran-tensions","tag-qatar","tag-sean-starkey","tag-us-government-evacuation","tag-us-iran-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213292","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=213292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}