{"id":345432,"date":"2026-06-03T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345432\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:31:08","slug":"kern-county-fire-department-to-conduct-live-fire-drills-on-june-3-4-in-east-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345432\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Fire Department to conduct live fire drills on June 3 &#038; 4 in east Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Fire Department is conducting \u201cWildland Hot Drills\u201d in east Bakersfield on Wednesday, June 3 and Thursday, June 4, from 8 a.m. to the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>KCFD said the training burns will consist of live fire exercises in dry grass. The focus is on developing essential skills for their newer firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce completed, the burns will have eliminated dead and dry grasses that pose a wildfire threat to local residences,\u201d said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>KCFD said that, in preparation, the department created fuel breaks on the property with heavy equipment and coordinated plans with utility companies and Air Pollution Control District.<\/p>\n<p>The burns will be at the southeast corner of the intersection of Highway 178 and Weedpatch Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Fire Department is conducting \u201cWildland Hot Drills\u201d in east Bakersfield on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-345432","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\/345432","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=345432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}