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The Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) is an agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the county of Kern, California, USA. Over 625 permanent employees and 100 extra help employees protect an area which spans over 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2 ).
Kern County was partitioned from Tulare, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties in 1866, [3] following a failed effort to establish Buena Vista County which started in 1855. [4] The initial county seat was set in Havilah, and the governor appointed Theron Reed as the county judge. At their first two meetings, held August 1–2, 1866, the ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kern County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
Kernville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California, United States. [4] Kernville is located 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Bakersfield, [6] at an elevation of 2,667 feet (813 m). [4]
The Hurricane fire, which began Saturday in San Luis Obispo County, had burned 20,000 acres and was 10% contained as of Sunday afternoon, according to a news release from the Kern County Fire ...
Zack Scrivner, a Kern County supervisor who was accused of sexually assaulting one of his children in April, resigned Thursday from his post. The attorney general's office is reviewing a case ...
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
Shafter is a city in Kern County, California, United States.It is located 18 miles (29 km) west-northwest of Bakersfield. [4] The population was 16,988 at the 2010 census, up from 12,736 at the 2000 census.