{"id":269140,"date":"2026-04-15T14:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:33:35","slug":"warehouse-fire-under-investigation-after-string-of-fires-in-southeast-bakersfield-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269140\/","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse fire under investigation after string of fires in southeast Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/washington-st-warehouse-fire-041326-uoYV23-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-943837\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: Unless you were inside all day Saturday, you likely saw black clouds of smoke rise from southeast Bakersfield. In fact, you could see the smoke billowing from a warehouse from Interstate 5 over the Grapevine. A fire from a huge warehouse lot on South Washington Street was visible for miles across Bakersfield this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>An issue that isn\u2019t new to this area. \u201cWell, we woke up and we just looked into the sky and we saw fire. Same looking fires that we\u2019ve seen in the past coming from this area,\u201d said Michael Hefler, a nearby resident close to the warehouse lot. The warehouse lot has seen at least three fires in the past two years, the most recent in January of last year.<\/p>\n<p>KGET-TV NBC\/CW+ 17 Bakersfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Unless you were inside all day Saturday, you likely saw black clouds of smoke rise from southeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,7],"class_list":["post-269140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269140","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=269140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}