It’s been a long shift for these Kern County firefighters, but they’re finally home after nearly two weeks of fighting one of the most devastating fires California has ever seen; the Palisades Fire.

Both the Kern County Fire Department and the Bakersfield Fire Department said combined, over 120 firefighters are heading to SoCal to help battle the fires. KCFD said they sent: 2 “Alpha ...

The photo of the Kern County firefighters, first posted in Dec 2017, has now resurfaced amid the several fires in California Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital.

A firefighter was struck by a hit-and-run driver while on a call to a semi-truck on fire on Highway 99 early Sunday morning.The Kern County Fire Department said ...

The man found dead in a burning mobile home in Maricopa in February died from smoke inhalation, the Kern County Coroner said Monday.

A local firefighter suffered injury early Sunday while helping put out a fire that engulfed a tractor-trailer along Highway ...

Firefighters successfully extinguished a blaze at a marijuana grow facility early Wednesday morning in California City, ...

The name of the 78-year-old man who died in a residential fire in Maricopa in February was released Monday by the Kern County coroner's office.

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Read more on our AI policy here. A new prescribed burn, called Tecuya Ridge 3, was initiated today at 2:53 p.m. in Kern County. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by the ...

Read more on our AI policy here. A new prescribed burn, named Tecuya Ridge 2, was initiated today at 8:30 a.m. in Kern County. The prescribed fire has been burning on federal land managed by the ...