By Gary Meyer, TME

All the public agencies present at this year’s winter snowplay Town Hall last Saturday, Sept. 23 agreed they were unprepared for the number of visitors that arrived on our mountain on January 1, 2017.

“As much as I’d been told, ‘Hey, we’re going to have problems,’ and ‘What are you going to do about it?’… I never really anticipated that we would have that many problems,” CHP Lieutenant Curtis Fouyer told about 15 people at Frazier Park Community Center.

Of the six agency representatives at the table last Saturday, only Mark Evans of Kern County Roads Department had…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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(l-r) CHP Officer Brian Moore, CHP Lt. Curtis Fouyer, Kern County Sheriff Sgt. David Kessler, U.S. Forest Service Officer Brian St. Clair, Kern County Roads Department Engineer Mark Evans and Kern County Supervisor David Couch. (not pictured, National Weather Service Science and Operations Officer Kris Mattarochia)

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