{"id":449829,"date":"2026-09-01T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:02:13","slug":"crews-respond-to-drone-like-aircraft-fire-at-elk-hills-buttonwillow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449829\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews respond to drone-like aircraft fire at Elk Hills-Buttonwillow Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A drone-like aircraft was on fire at the Elk Hills-Buttonwillow Airport Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were seen at the airport at around 11:30 a.m. at the Elk Hills-Buttonwillow Airport, south of Buttonwillow.<\/p>\n<p>A drone-like aircraft was seen with damaged of a fire.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4e887ba4-83fc-4a63-b592-7f25b53fc121-Sequence_MILLS_DRONEFIRE_0001_frame_446.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News has reached out to the Kern County Fire Department for more information on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A drone-like aircraft was on fire at the Elk Hills-Buttonwillow Airport Monday morning. Crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-449829","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\/449829","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=449829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}