{"id":316201,"date":"2026-05-14T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316201\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:19:27","slug":"officials-urge-caution-around-the-kern-river-ahead-of-the-summer-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316201\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials urge caution around the Kern River ahead of the summer season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As the summer months approach and the weather heats up, tourists and Kern County residents are heading down to the Kern River.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are warning that danger isn&#8217;t always obvious on the river, the surface can seem calm but strong currents are surging underneath the water.<\/p>\n<p>Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Public Information Officer Lori Mesa joined ARC Bakersfield to urge the public to be aware of the conditions and take the necessary precautions around the Kern River. <\/p>\n<p><p>Bureau of Land Management District Manager Gabe Garcia joins ARC Bakersfield (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Several local agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, are working together to educate visitors about the dangers of the Kern River.<\/p>\n<p>B.L.M. California District Manager Gabe Garcia joined ARC Bakersfield to share how they are working to keep the area safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 As the summer months approach and the weather heats up, tourists and Kern County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-316201","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\/316201","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=316201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}