{"id":298507,"date":"2026-05-04T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298507\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:59:08","slug":"tower-fire-burns-100-acres-in-east-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298507\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Fire Burns 100 acres in East Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Fire crews in Kern County are working to contain a wildfire burning in east Bakersfield, known as the \u201cTower Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is now an Evacuation Order in place due to the Tower Fire for zone 443. For the latest on evacuations, download the Genasys Protect app, or <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started Sunday near Edison Highway and Comanche Drive and has grown to approximately 2,219 acres, according to fire officials. As of now, the fire remains 0% contained.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Fire crews in Kern County are working to contain a wildfire burning in east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-298507","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\/298507","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=298507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}