{"id":298449,"date":"2026-05-03T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298449\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:54:07","slug":"fire-along-highway-99-prompts-ramp-closure-near-highway-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298449\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Along Highway 99 Prompts Ramp Closure Near Highway 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A fire burning along Highway 99, just south of the Highway 65 off-ramp, is causing traffic problems and drawing a response from fire crews and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the California Highway Patrol, the fire was first reported just before 2:10 p.m. Authorities say a man may have started the fire along the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were called in to contain the flames.<\/p>\n<p>As crews work to bring the fire under control, CHP says the Highway 65 on-ramp to the southbound lanes of Highway 99 is closed.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet on when the on-ramp will reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A fire burning along Highway 99, just south of the Highway 65 off-ramp, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-298449","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\/298449","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=298449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}