It's hard to put in words the mix of fear and dread Daniel Gonzales felt as a wind-whipped fire roared into his yard last month in this remote mountain town in eastern Kern County. He managed to ...

Kern County firefighters from several western Kern stations assisted in a rescue of two people in a car the drove off a steep ...

“You cannot practice for this,” Kern County Fire Department PIO Jonathan ... to reach the man who wasn’t moving. The truck’s 100-foot ladder couldn’t reach. “The ladder truck’s ...