{"id":217205,"date":"2026-03-12T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217205\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:41:07","slug":"kern-county-coroner-identifies-man-who-died-in-downtown-bakersfield-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217205\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County coroner identifies man who died in downtown Bakersfield fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Kern County Coroner has identified the man who died in a downtown Bakersfield structure fire last month.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Cesar Rosales, 45, of Bakersfield was found unresponsive during a structure fire on F Street just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters located Rosales during a search of the building. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakersfield Police Department and Bakersfield Fire Department are continuing to investigate the cause of the fire and Rosales&#8217; death.<\/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 The Kern County Coroner has identified the man who died in a downtown Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,23790,153,152,99624,1048,99625,5083,162],"class_list":["post-217205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-fire","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-cesar-rosales","tag-downtown-bakersfield","tag-f-street-fire","tag-kern-county-coroner","tag-kern-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217205","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=217205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}