{"id":299382,"date":"2026-05-04T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:12:10","slug":"fire-in-east-bakersfield-burns-over-2k-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299382\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in east Bakersfield burns over 2K acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mon, May 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c343279fae3321a2121b34add8d9a78.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fire in east Bakersfield burns over 2K acres<\/p>\n<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Firefighters are trying to contain a fire that broke out Sunday in east Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kern County Fire Department, the fire began just after 3 p.m. on Towerline Road near Edison Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The fire has burned 2,500 acres and is 50% contained, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/5\/3\/tower-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CalFire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">CalFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No structures have been lost and an evacuation warning was sent out to neighboring areas.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM UTC Fire in east Bakersfield burns over 2K acres BAKERSFIELD, Calif.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,9991,4853,28844,328],"class_list":["post-299382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-east-bakersfield","tag-firefighters","tag-kern-county-fire-department","tag-kget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299382","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=299382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}