{"id":424007,"date":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:28:08","slug":"vegetation-fire-near-highway-58-lanes-prompts-closures-at-fairfax-road-chp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424007\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetation fire near Highway 58 lanes prompts closures at Fairfax Road: CHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vegetation fire has temporarily closed at least one lane and an offramp on eastbound Highway 58 at Fairfax Road on Tuesday afternoon, according to CHP and Caltrans.<\/p>\n<p>At around 2:18 p.m., two fires were reported in the area. Flames were reported near the highway lanes, and traffic is delayed. Fire crews are on scene.<\/p>\n<p>CHP stopped cars on Highway 58 near Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>The offramp to Weedpatch Highway is closed at this time. The number three lane is also shut down on Weedpatch Highway.<\/p>\n<p>To follow updates, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/cad.chp.ca.gov\/Traffic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cad.chp.ca.gov\/traffic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vegetation fire has temporarily closed at least one lane and an offramp on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-424007","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\/424007","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=424007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}