{"id":303560,"date":"2026-05-07T01:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:43:17","slug":"firefighters-responding-to-2-fires-east-of-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303560\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters responding to 2 fires east of Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Fire crews are responding to two fires east of Bakersfield, called the &#8220;Baker&#8221; and &#8220;General&#8221; fires along Highway 58, according to Cal Fire and reports.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/5\/6\/general-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confirms that the &#8220;General Fire<\/a>&#8221; along Highway 58, east of Murray Family  Farms, has burned 25 acres, with 0% containment as of 5:59 p.m. It started at around 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: PG&amp;E\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/440446c8-6ce4-4c5c-8fc2-991ec4d1bf92-GENERALFIRE.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reports of the &#8220;Baker Fire&#8221; say that 80 acres have burned so far. The fire is also on Highway 58 between Tejon Highway and the Bena Road area, per reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: PG&amp;E\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/00e94c69-d158-4dad-a245-438dbc39c378-BAKERFIRE.jpg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and will be updated once more information is provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Fire crews are responding to two fires east of Bakersfield, called the &#8220;Baker&#8221; and &#8220;General&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-303560","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\/303560","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=303560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}