{"id":255077,"date":"2026-04-07T03:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255077\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:30:07","slug":"firefighters-battling-flames-at-house-on-18th-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255077\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battling flames at house on 18th Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield firefighters are battling a fire at a home in the 2400 block of 18th Street on Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p>It has closed the 18th Street and A Street. Avoid the area, if possible. It appears a garage caught fire, according to our Eyewitness News crew.<\/p>\n<p>It reportedly started around 7:40 p.m. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.<\/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\/2026\/04\/401c9198-568c-426e-bd46-844b19733ac2-Media20260406T195831.944.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We have an Eyewitness News crew at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and will be updated once more information is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Bakersfield firefighters are battling a fire at a home in the 2400 block of 18th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-255077","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\/255077","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=255077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}