About 200 people came to the ribbon cutting and pre-opening ceremony at Kern County Fire Station 58 near Pine Mountain Village July 12. Above, Frances Durocher and William Gurtner hold the banner which is now a historic symbol of the remote community’s struggle to gain better emergency medical response. At the podium, A.J. Durocher presents Kern County Fire Chief Brian Marshall with historical clippings from The Mountain Enterprise about the last decade of the effort. At right, community leader Edie Stafford looks on with pride. [photo by Mel Weinstein]