“The problem will get worse…” —David Nelson, President, Kern County Firefighters Local 1301

By Gary Meyer, TME

Ballot Measure K has generated much debate in our local mountains, mostly about the technicalities in the language of the measure and the question of whether the revenue from the additional 1% sales tax would be guaranteed to benefit the unincorporated areas of Kern County.

It’s been made clear that limiting allocation of funds to only the unincorporated areas cannot…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Since 1960, Frazier Park’s Kern County Fire Station 57, last week with its paint peeling, has been available to respond to emergency calls 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

A Frazier Park home burns in 2021 next to another home that was saved.

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This is part of the November 4, 2022 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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