{"id":298548,"date":"2026-05-04T01:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:35:06","slug":"vegetation-fire-burns-2000-acres-near-edison-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298548\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetation fire burns 2,000+ acres near Edison Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A  vegetation fire is burning northeast of Edison Highway and Comanche Drive, according to Kern County Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The flames have already burned over 2,000 acres. Wind is pushing the fire rapidly to the north and east.<\/p>\n<p>Several structures are in the direct path of the flames. Firefighters have requested 10 air tankers to help stop the spread.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has issued an evacuation warning for the area.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A vegetation fire is burning northeast of Edison Highway and Comanche Drive, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,162],"class_list":["post-298548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kern-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298548","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=298548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}