KCSO investigating suspicious death
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office is seeking information about a dead man in a residence in the 3200 block of Montello Street who had been in an altercation a week earlier.
Kern County Fire Department personnel were dispatched Sunday to the residence. Personnel from the Coroner’s Office arrived and “learned details which led the deputy coroner on scene to contact the Kern County Sheriff’s Office,” a KCSO news release said.
Homicide detectives went to the residence, where they learned the deceased had been in an altercation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 661-861-3110 or the Secret Witness line at 661-322-4040.
A person was found dead inside a Wasco home where a fire broke out early Sunday
morning, according to the Kern County Fire Department.
The department’s communications center received reports there was a fire in the 800 block of Filburn Avenue at about 12:45 a.m. and that someone was trapped inside, a fire incident narrative said.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire at the front of the residence, and the fire was under control in about 30 minutes. While the one person found during a search of the home died, a second was taken to a hospital. No information about their identities has been released.
The cause of the fire has not been determined, the fire department reported.
Firefighters hatched a plan to rescue a
horse on Saturday that had bucked off a
rider and then fell into the Edison Flume on Kern River Canyon Road near Miller Street in Bodfish.
Crews from Lake Isabella Station 72 were called about 1:23 p.m. on reports of an emergency involving the horse and its rider, according to a Kern County Fire Department incident narrative. They arrived to find an injured rider.
The rider — his or her identity was not released — was treated by firefighters and then taken to a hospital by Liberty Ambulance.
Firefighters worked with Edison to create a dirt ramp with the use of a backhoe provided by Edison to get the horse, which had moderate injuries, out of the flume and to its owner, the fire department reported.