Major flooding causes road closures and signal outages, Bakersfield CA

Road Closure

Reported: 11/15/2025 12:05 PM

Mount Vernon Ave & Kentucky St, East Bakersfield, CA 93305

There is major flooding affecting multiple streets near Mount Vernon Avenue in East Bakersfield. Several traffic signals are out, creating traffic hazards in the area.

Audio|Source: Kern County Fire/Bakersfield Fire/USFS

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Transcript:

00:00

Yeah, can you advise for those department.

00:01

We have major flooding at Malvern and Kentucky and Center Place.

00:12

Mount Vernon and Kentucky.

00:17

Yeah, it's going to be on Malvernate and underneath the Mount Vernon Bridge, yeah, Center, please.

00:23

Howdy.

00:28

(number withheld). (number withheld).

00:35

41.

00:36

CHP has been advised to notify Caddy-Rids.

00:39

HAN-(number withheld)-ECCC, this will be a click-to-mouth plate and great-stick patient.

00:46

Copy.

00:54

The signal is out in this direction.

00:56

Probably reinforce signals from South King Street east all the way to Mount Vernon.

01:01

Thank you, everybody.

01:02

All right.

01:19

BCCH41.

01:25

Making you also advise Tony Rose, California and Bates, flooded.

01:33

California and Bates?

01:37

Any firm.

01:46

C-64. It's clear for ambulance.

01:50

Copy. Confirm in case the show is needed.

01:55

There's no obvious hazard in the area, but advise to be a PD that there will be the traffic hazard or all the signals out in the rainy conditions.

02:03

Copy your landline lift them now, confirming you'll be complete.

02:08

Affirmative.

02:10

You can just leave a call open for a moment.

02:13

Copy.

02:19

ECC, track 41.

02:22

312.1. 2.5.

02:29

GEN 6. Gen 6, ECCC, are the signal lights completely out or are they flashing?

02:40

Completely out from South King East as far as we can see at least.

02:47

All right, short 41 is going to complete.

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Mount Vernon Ave & Kentucky St, East Bakersfield, CA 93305

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