{"id":321717,"date":"2026-05-18T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321717\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:46:53","slug":"highway-178-closed-as-vegetation-fire-burns-near-kern-canyon-road-200-acres-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321717\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 178 closed as vegetation fire burns near Kern Canyon Road, 200+ acres burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 UPDATE (1 PM):<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Forest Service &#8211; Sequoia National Forest said that the &#8220;River Fire&#8221; has grown to 225 acres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Highway 178 was closed in both directions Monday morning after a vegetation fire broke out along Kern Canyon Road near the west entrance to the canyon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1082592014726195\/?s=single_unit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kern County Fire officials said 121 acres have burned<\/a>. Additional resources have been requested.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters in Kern County, along with additional resources, were battling the fire about a quarter-mile into the mouth of the canyon. The fire was first reported around 8:22 Monday morning, May 18, near the mouth of the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Watch Duty app, at least 200 acres had burned and no containment was reported.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said State Route 178 was shut down at both ends of the canyon because of the fire. &#8220;No estimated time of opening. Please find an alternate route,&#8221; CHP posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 UPDATE (1 PM): The U.S. Forest Service &#8211; Sequoia National Forest said that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-321717","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\/321717","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=321717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}