{"id":343416,"date":"2026-06-02T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343416\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:09:11","slug":"downtown-bakersfield-city-buildings-on-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343416\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Bakersfield city buildings on lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Several city buildings in downtown Bakersfield are on lockdown after the Bakersfield Police Department reported an active bomb threat and hostage situation near Truxtun and Chester avenues.<\/p>\n<p>City Hall North and City Hall South are currently closed to the public. The Development Services Building and Police Headquarters are also locked down.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the closures are a precaution. The public cannot enter any of the affected properties at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The buildings will remain closed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/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 Several city buildings in downtown Bakersfield are on lockdown after the Bakersfield Police Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,162],"class_list":["post-343416","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\/343416","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=343416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}