{"id":258633,"date":"2026-04-09T02:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:29:26","slug":"firefighters-battle-taft-fire-in-south-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258633\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle Taft Fire in south Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Firefighters are battling the Taft Fire in south Bakersfield Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was reported at about 3:20 p.m. in the area of South Union Avenue and Taft Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials with the Bakersfield Fire Department said the fire is approximately three acres in size and is close to structures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials called this fire the \u201cTaft Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Firefighters are battling the Taft Fire in south Bakersfield Wednesday afternoon. The fire was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,14766,4853,114155,60632],"class_list":{"0":"post-258633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-fire-officials","12":"tag-firefighters","13":"tag-taft-fire","14":"tag-taft-highway"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258633","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=258633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}