{"id":372006,"date":"2026-06-23T21:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:30:22","slug":"body-recovered-during-search-for-missing-person-in-kern-river-near-hart-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372006\/","title":{"rendered":"Body recovered during search for missing person in Kern River near Hart Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A body was recovered near Hart Park Tuesday afternoon during an ongoing search for a person reported missing in the Kern River, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

Deputies said the incident began Monday at approximately 11:30 a.m. when emergency crews received reports of three people in distress in the river. Two of those people were rescued, while one remained missing.<\/p>\n

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During that rescue operation, authorities received a separate, unrelated report of two additional people in the river. Both of those individuals were successfully rescued.<\/p>\n

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A body was recovered near Hart Park on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, during the search for a person who went missing in the Kern River after two separate incidents the day before involving five people in the water; four were rescued, while authorities have not confirmed whether the body is the missing individual. (KBAK\/KBFX Photo)<\/p>\n

In total, five people were involved in the two incidents. Four were rescued and one remained unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

The search for the missing person resumed Tuesday morning. At approximately 1 p.m., search crews recovered a body from the river near Hart Park.<\/p>\n

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The Kern County Sheriff’s Office said it cannot yet confirm whether the body is the person who went missing during Monday’s incident. <\/p>\n

The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A body was recovered near Hart Park Tuesday afternoon during an ongoing search for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-372006","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\/372006","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=372006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}