{"id":424576,"date":"2026-08-05T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424576\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:50:45","slug":"vehicle-fire-ignites-brush-along-southbound-i-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424576\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle fire ignites brush along southbound I-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX)  \u2014 A vehicle caught fire this morning on southbound I-5.<\/p>\n<p>Caltrans cameras show a pickup truck with a trailer caught fire and has caused a brush fire to ignite.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was first reported at 7:51 a.m. and has been named the Buzzard Fire. <\/p>\n<p>The CHP incident page says the number 4 southbound lane on I-5 have been closed. <\/p>\n<p>According to Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s office, an evacuation warning is in place for zone KRN-535.<\/p>\n<p>The latest information on evacuation warnings can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/protect.genasys.com\/en\/map\/34.911115%2C-118.937482\/alerts\/KRN-535?campaignId=1525624&amp;selectedAlertId=1525624_US-CA-XKE-KRN-535&amp;lat=34.9004&amp;lng=-118.9293&amp;z=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protect.genasys.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A vehicle caught fire this morning on southbound I-5. Caltrans cameras show a pickup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-424576","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\/424576","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=424576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}