{"id":328071,"date":"2026-05-22T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:17:14","slug":"update-may-21-2026-11-am-river-fire-reaches-90-containment-highway-178-remains-open-through-kern-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328071\/","title":{"rendered":"Update May 21, 2026 11 AM &#8211; River Fire reaches 90% containment; Highway 178 remains open through Kern Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spencer Shepard | spencer@kvsun.com<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"363\">BAKERSFIELD \u2014 The River Fire burning in Kern Canyon reached 90% containment, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, as Highway 178 remained open to traffic Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"365\" data-end=\"403\">The fire has burned 3,534.9 acres.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"643\">Both the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans continued to show Highway 178 open after the roadway was temporarily closed earlier this week as firefighters battled the fast-moving wildfire in steep terrain west of the Kern River Valley.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"645\" data-end=\"811\">The closure had disrupted the primary travel route between the Kern River Valley and Bakersfield, forcing motorists to use alternate routes until conditions improved.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"1048\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With containment now at 90%, firefighters continued mop-up and suppression repair operations in the burn area, though motorists traveling through Kern Canyon are still urged to remain alert for fire personnel and equipment in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Shepard | spencer@kvsun.com BAKERSFIELD \u2014 The River Fire burning in Kern Canyon reached 90% containment, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-328071","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\/328071","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=328071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}