{"id":299124,"date":"2026-05-04T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299124\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:26:10","slug":"tower-fire-near-bakersfield-burns-2500-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299124\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Fire near Bakersfield burns 2,500 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 A fire located near Bakersfield in Kern County quickly grew to at least 2,500 acres on Sunday afternoon and prompted evacuation orders, which were then downgraded to warnings, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/5\/3\/tower-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cal Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Tower Fire, which started just before 4 p.m. Sunday, grew from 50 acres to over 2,000 in less than two hours, according to Cal Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The fire prompted an evacuation order in the KRN-443 zone, near Tarina and Edison, along State Highway 58 and Bena Road.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday evening, the fire remained at 0% containment, according to Cal Fire.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 A fire located near Bakersfield in Kern County quickly grew to at least 2,500&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[16461,151,153,152,7,2998,535],"class_list":["post-299124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-app-wildfires","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299124","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=299124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}