{"id":316319,"date":"2026-05-15T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T00:32:07","slug":"grass-fire-burns-more-than-100-acres-along-garces-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/316319\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass fire burns more than 100 acres along Garces Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vegetation fire has burned more than 100 acres north of Bakersfield along Garces Highway, according to CHP&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported at around 5 p.m. in the area of Garces Highway and Thorton Road. Crews are responding to the area. <\/p>\n<p>The area is closed one mile just west of Thorton Road. Avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/5\/14\/rowlee-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cal Fire said the fire ignited at 4:58 p.m.<\/a> The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Fire Department is on scene and is handling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vegetation fire has burned more than 100 acres north of Bakersfield along Garces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-316319","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\/316319","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=316319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}