{"id":396742,"date":"2026-07-13T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:13:23","slug":"bakersfield-fd-man-accused-of-setting-luigis-restaurant-fire-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/396742\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield FD: Man accused of setting Luigi\u2019s restaurant fire sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Fire Department is asking for help in finding a man accused of starting a fire at the Luigi\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department said the fire happened on July 11, 2026, at around 3:20 a.m. at the restaurant in east Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The man was last seen in the 700 block of East 19th Street after setting a building on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is described as a man wearing a dark-colored t-shirt, blue jeans, and light-colored boots.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is also known to wear a bright red baseball hat and frequents the area near the Bakersfield Rescue Mission.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Bakersfield Fire Department Arson Investigators at 661-326- 3699.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Fire Department is asking for help in finding a man accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-396742","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\/396742","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=396742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}