Kern County Fire Department Landfill Fire

On Sunday, June 30th just after 3:00PM Kern County Fire Department Received calls from employees at Tehachapi Landfill regarding a trash fire. When crews arrived on scene they found a trash fire about 0.5 acres in size. In about 2 hours crews were able to contain it to about 1 acre. The cause of the fire is unknown

[@Critical911]

Amazing catches and footage!!

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

Thank you!

[@MarkGTLLC]

When i was with Kings County (ages ago) we went on a few literal dumpster fires.
Man i was so trashed after those. 😂

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

Haha yeah they can get good sometimes!

[@MarkGTLLC]

@@kerncountyresponsevideos2639 at least it wasn't a porta potty. Talk about a 💩 day...

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

😂

[@joep.9411]

I have heard the Porta IC once. I will not name any names due to the statute of limitations is still in place. 😂

[@KernPlanespotting]

Amazing fire

[@Garbageman_Matt]

Yikes. Glad they saved it. Probably caused by lithium ion batterys

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

Yeah, probably thanks for watching

[@danielthewildlandfirebehavioor]

When is kern county fire department going to get a firehawk blackhak helicopter kern county is the only fire department that doesn't have the blackhak helicopters yet they can deliver 1,000 gallon of water more than the Hu1 has 360-400gallons of water

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

So currently Kern County Fire has 2 UH-1H Hueys, but I did see somewhere (I don’t remember where, but it was an official source) that Kern County’s are outdated and they are going to need new ones. I think they are going with fire hawks just like Ventura county. I don’t think this will be for a couple years tho.

[@JohnDoe-gh8sk]

Orange County just bought 2 and they also have a chinook

[@joep.9411]

I believe there is one new Huey on order, should be delivered next year sometime. No way the county will spend the money on Firehawks. They did get two of OCFA’s old Huey’s for parts last year or the year before.

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

@@joep.9411 i remember like 10 years ago they had 2 Huey’s sitting in the back of station 12. They got rid of them in like 2019

[@joep.9411]

@@danielthewildlandfirebehavioor those were Federal Excess Property that were used for parts for 407 and 408. They also had some body parts at the camp in Tehachapi. The engines and transmissions in 407 and 408 are or were from Cobras.

[@lukev_youtube]

Nice work 👏👏👏👏

[@kerncountyresponsevideos2639]

Thanks!

[@erlc_kcrp]

W KCFD.

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🔥🔥🔥