Oes personnel and also our command staff from the county side. As far as other operations, we do have people coming to work back from the stations. And at the current moment we have adequate staffing and personnel. We have been experiencing some aftershocks. Nothing new reported. But currently were waiting to stand by for that and waiting to transition to the structural grid search. Thats all we have at this point. Thank you. Thank you very much, chief mitchell. Now wed like to give our attention to a subject matter expert. We have ken hedna here from usgs to speak with us. I want to say first of all thanks to the navy base for allowing us access there today and also for the city for their support here. The mayor, chief of police. We had just had briefings as we came out of the field today, we being myself and Janice Hernandez from the California Geological survey. With support from the california highway patrol, we were able to do reconnaissance from surface rupture. When an earthquak
This is again, the casino ou towards the palm springs area actually a little further east than that. You can see massive swaying there. Those fixtures looking almost more like swings at the playground. Rocking backandforth from house high those ceilings are, would say those are swinging probably four or 5 feet in each direction. That is massive shaking going o there. You can see the waiters they are quickly making their way down the stairs to get off the second floor and tried to try t get out of there. They know that this is definitely get a nightmare situation for folks in Southern California as aftershocks continue. We will go back into this press conference from caltech and usgs , lets listen in. Because it cannot be predicted, they are working on that, theyre working on that system and that is something sh will likely touch on tonight they hope to have more federal funding for that, but now to doctor lucy jones bird can get bit of a summary on tonights earthquake, we had to magnit
The Kern County Fire Department is battling a large fire in Shafter.KCFD said firefighters are on scene of an un-confirmed working fire with structure threatene
Construction materials valued at $2 million burned in a 403-acre fire Thursday afternoon near Gaskell Road and 100th Street West in Rosamond, according to the Kern County Fire Department.
UPDATE (8:54 P.M.): The Kern County Fire Department said on Tuesday, that two separate fires on James Road and another near Highway 65 burned 75 total acres.