Kern County Fire

Boy, 12, credited with saving family from fire

November 16, 2009

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A 12-year-old boy is being credited with saving his family from a fire.The boy smelled smoke and heard his sister coughing Sunday night at the family’s mobile home on Millux Road, which is in a remote area southwest of Bakersfield. He woke of up his family — two parents and three siblings [...]

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Aircraft Emergency Response – Kern County Firefighters

June 8, 2008

BAKERSFIELD, CA – June 5, 2008 at approximately 9:58 am, Kern County Firefighters responded to Meadows Field for a report of a Super King Air 8200 with a possible landing gear problem. An indicator light in the cockpit signaled that the aircraft landing gear was down, but not locked. Kern County Fire crews were on [...]

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Oildale fire causes $300,000 in damage

April 27, 2008

Firefighters saved more than $240,000 worth of property in a Friday night Oildale blaze that also caused $60,000 in damage to an empty building, Kern County Fire Department officials said. Thirteen Bakersfield and Kern County firefighters responded to a fire at a vacant duplex at 11:32 p.m. Friday at the 100 block of Warren Avenue. [...]

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Firefighters Respond To Blaze At Golden State Metals – CA

February 19, 2008

The Kern County Fire Department responded to a fire in a scrap metal pile Monday night. At about 8 p.m., the fire department was called to Golden State Metals on Brundage Lane in east Bakersfield, said Sean Collins, public information officer for the department. About an hour later, a large crane was pulling chunks of [...]

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Firefighters Pull Man From Burning House – Kern County

January 19, 2008

An elderly man was in critical condition at Kern Medical Center late Saturday afternoon due to smoke inhalation after firefighters rescued him from his burning Lamont house earlier in the day. Kern County firefighters received a call around 1:51 p.m. on a home in the 8100 block of Palm Avenue, said Kern County Fire Department [...]

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