{"id":328969,"date":"2026-05-23T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328969\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:22:10","slug":"kern-county-cooling-centers-set-to-open-june-1-as-summer-heat-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328969\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County cooling centers set to open June 1 as summer heat approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Triple-digit temperatures may not be back in Kern County yet, but local cooling centers are preparing for the summer season.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the county\u2019s cooling center program is set to begin June 1 and is expected to run through Sept. 22, depending on funding. <\/p>\n<p>The centers will open only when temperatures are forecast to reach dangerous levels, including 105 degrees in the San Joaquin and Kern River valleys.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>There are a dozen cooling center locations across Kern County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Triple-digit temperatures may not be back in Kern County yet, but local cooling centers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-328969","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\/328969","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=328969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}