{"id":423951,"date":"2026-08-04T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423951\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:16:34","slug":"resident-cats-rescued-from-bakersfield-burning-home-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423951\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident, cats rescued from Bakersfield burning home | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters from the Bakersfield Fire Department rescued a person and several cats from a burning single-story home in the 2800 block of Hines Way on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BFD said firefighters who arrived at about 10:10 p.m. found light smoke coming from a corner of the home and fire inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The person \u2014 whose name was not released \u2014 was rescued, given medical care by fire personnel and taken to a hospital by Hall Ambulance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other firefighters extinguished a bedroom fire and during a search, found the undisclosed number of cats and took them to fresh air.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation, according to a BFD news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BFD said a properly installed and working smoke and fire alarm system provided early notification to the department, allowing firefighters to respond quickly and find the person.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters from the Bakersfield Fire Department rescued a person and several cats from a burning single-story home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-423951","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\/423951","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=423951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}