{"id":347201,"date":"2026-06-04T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:21:09","slug":"containment-efforts-underway-after-walker-fire-burns-100-acres-in-caliente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347201\/","title":{"rendered":"Containment efforts underway after Walker Fire burns 100+ acres in Caliente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Forward progress stopped for a fire that burned over 100 acres in Caliente Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans said the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.ca.gov\/incidents\/2026\/6\/4\/walker-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walker Fire<\/a> started at around 1:11 p.m. near Bodfish Road and Walser Road in Caliente.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern County Fire Department said the fire has burned about 138 acres with 10% containment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Forward progress stopped for a fire that burned over 100 acres in Caliente Thursday afternoon. PHOTO: AlertCalifornia\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/109fdf0b-b49e-4e87-93d8-a0cba65681e4-Screenshot20260604154730.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Forward progress stopped for a fire that burned over 100 acres in Caliente Thursday afternoon. PHOTO: AlertCalifornia<\/p>\n<p>KCFD said the fire had winds pushing at a moderate rate of spread.<\/p>\n<p>KCFD also said the fire is about 138 acres with forward progress stopped and 10% containment.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernpublicworks.com\/services\/transportation\/road-maintenance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kern County Public Works<\/a>, Caliente Bodfish Road is closed between Indian Oak Road to Walker Basin Road due to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Assisting agencies to remain on scene for several hours and KCFD resources are expected to remain on scene through the night to increase containment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Forward progress stopped for a fire that burned over 100 acres in Caliente Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-347201","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\/347201","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=347201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}