{"id":250470,"date":"2026-04-03T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250470\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:48:15","slug":"child-rescued-after-getting-stuck-inside-chimney-at-northeast-bakersfield-home-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250470\/","title":{"rendered":"Child rescued after getting stuck inside chimney at northeast Bakersfield home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A boy was rescued after being stuck inside a chimney at a northeast Bakersfield home Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Bakersfield Fire Department said crews were called to a report of a child stuck in a chimney at a home in the 2900 block of La Cresta Drive, near Garces Memorial High School.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found a small child down inside a chimney about 8 to 12 feet down. Officers said the child was not in any distress and was able to speak to firefighters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A boy was rescued after being stuck inside a chimney at a northeast Bakersfield home Wednesday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775092597_309_47b49f5b-35c5-4a86-b419-ba574dbee30a-KIDSTUCKINCHIMENEY_frame_1527.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A boy was rescued after being stuck inside a chimney at a northeast Bakersfield home Wednesday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Crews were able to send ropes down to him and pull him back out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A boy was rescued after being stuck inside a chimney at a northeast Bakersfield home Wednesday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775092598_335_a477e530-5dd3-41dc-ad6d-7d5619f2c2b2-KIDSTUCKINCHIMENEY_frame_12004.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A boy was rescued after being stuck inside a chimney at a northeast Bakersfield home Wednesday afternoon. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the hospital for evaluation with some scrapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A boy was rescued after being stuck inside a chimney at a northeast Bakersfield&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-250470","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\/250470","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=250470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}