{"id":342294,"date":"2026-06-02T02:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:03:16","slug":"grass-fire-shuts-down-westbound-highway-58-near-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342294\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass fire shuts down westbound Highway 58 near Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Smoke from a grass fire is covering the westbound lanes of Highway 58 near Sterling.<\/p>\n<p>The Sterling Fire is burning between Owens and Sterling along Highway 58. Authorities have shut down westbound Highway 58, at least in part, due to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke is visible from the Mount Vernon area, blanketing westbound lanes of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Smoke from a grass fire is covering the westbound lanes of Highway 58 near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,162],"class_list":["post-342294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kern-county-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342294","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=342294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}