{"id":473260,"date":"2026-09-23T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473260\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:32:38","slug":"leak-prompts-hazmat-response-in-east-bakersfield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473260\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak prompts hazmat response in east Bakersfield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A leak has prompted a hazmat response on Virginia Avenue in east Bakersfield, according to the Kern County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kern County fire said their Hazardous Material Unit is on site of the leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause and type of the leak was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">17 News has contacted KCFD for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; A leak has prompted a hazmat response on Virginia Avenue in east Bakersfield, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,167816,28844,328,186146],"class_list":["post-473260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-hazmat-response","tag-kern-county-fire-department","tag-kget","tag-virginia-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473260","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=473260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}