Fire Season Wars Return—Are you ready?

  • [photo by Cliff Coleman]

    [photo by Cliff Coleman]

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Kern County Fire Chief Brian Marshall is not fooling around. He took to 60 Minutes, the respected television news show, to send his message on Sunday, May 28 as fire season resumes in California.

What was Marshall’s mission in the CBS report “In the Path of Fire”? He reminded us what fire science has discovered about the perils of…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Fires exploded up from the Grapevine into Digier Canyon multiple times in 2013; in 2005 wildfire came to the edge of the Best Rest Inn (now Motel 6) at Flying J and in 2013 a blaze rushed toward Falcon Field at Frazier Mountain High School. Is your home ready for this year?

This house burned to the ground on St. Anton in the Pine Mountain community in 2009. Right: 60 Minutes focused on Kern County.

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