{"id":371053,"date":"2026-06-23T03:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371053\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:13:13","slug":"sandy-fire-holds-at-99-acres-westbound-lane-closed-on-highway-178-in-kern-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371053\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Fire holds at 99 acres; westbound lane closed on Highway 178 in Kern Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Drivers traveling through the Kern River Canyon should expect restrictions as firefighters continue working to contain the &#8220;Sandy Fire,&#8221; which began Sunday morning, just after 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The fire held at 99 acres overnight. Highway 178 remains open in both directions, but the westbound right lane near Borel Road is still closed to allow room for firefighting efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are reminding drivers to slow down and watch for emergency crews working along the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Drivers traveling through the Kern River Canyon should expect restrictions as firefighters continue working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-371053","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\/371053","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=371053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}