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| Photo courtesy of Mike Meadows |
On Sunday morning, Sept. 2, a small plane crashed just south
of Tehachapi, killing two passengers. So far the fire has destroyed 12 homes,
and with only 10 percent of the fire contained, hundreds of other homes are in
danger.
Kern
County sheriff’s have ordered a mandatory evacuation throughout the Tehachapi
area. “We received a recording on our phone saying that we had to evacuate
because of the fire, so we had to leave our home,” says Spencer Christiansen, a
victim of the evacuation.
The
mandatory evacuation recording will be going out to all residents throughout
the Tehachapi area and is to say: “This is a message from the Kern County
Sheriff’s Office. Mandatory evacuations in the Blackburn Canyone Area, all
residences within the boundaries south of Highline, west of Willow Springs,
east of Water Canyone, and north of Oak Creek need to evacuate.”
There
are currently over 400 firefighters working together to put the fire out, and
in the meantime there is an
evacuation center at Jacobsen Junior High School in Tehachapi that will remain
open to residents until the fire is out.
By Kristi Phillips
