{"id":359842,"date":"2026-06-14T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:30:09","slug":"breaking-taft-fire-sweeps-through-80-acres-since-its-discovery-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359842\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Taft Fire sweeps through 80 acres since its discovery today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780997589_593_904274ad-cc18-4c6a-b772-fd81b276817c.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Updates on California wildfires.\" alt=\"Updates on California wildfires.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Updates on California wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First discovered:  4 p.m. June 13<\/p>\n<p>Initial location: Off Hwy 119, Bakersfield, Kern County, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Fire unit: Kern County Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Fire type: Wildfire<\/p>\n<p>Fire name: Taft Fire<\/p>\n<p>A new wildfire was reported today at 4 p.m. on Off Hwy 119, Bakersfield in Kern County, California.<\/p>\n<p>At present, details about the containment of the fire are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>See live video from the area:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Https:\/\/cameras.alertcalifornia.org\/?id=Axis-BuenaVistaKern1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Https:\/\/cameras.alertcalifornia.org\/?id=Axis-BuenaVistaKern1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Cal Fire<\/p>\n<p>United Robots Sacramento<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updates on California wildfires. The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-359842","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\/359842","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=359842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}