Vegetation fire near olive drive and highway 99, Kern County CA

Wildfire

Reported: 11/15/2025 07:45 AM

Olive Dr, California

Fire crews responded to a vegetation fire burning a large amount of branches near Highway 99 and just south of Olive Drive in California. The fire appeared near a drainage canal or old parking lot access. Units are on the scene working to contain the fire.

Audio|Source: Kern County Fire

02:28

Transcript:

00:00

Crestfire, 64's area, engine 64,

00:03

patrol 66, patrol 61, battalion 6,

00:07

north about 99, just south of Olive Drive, trees are clean,

00:11

putting a large amount of branches on fire, a sudden on curb war.

00:19

So goodnight, 6-1-4-4.

00:24

Pettightighton-614.

00:30

PCCHO, engine 61, and patrol 61 responding.

00:35

Copy engine and patrol 61.

00:39

Battalion 6.

00:40

Battalion 6.

00:44

Battalion 6.

00:46

Yeah, I'm on scene of 64 as far as they can handle with 64's equipment.

00:55

All right, compil break in the seat.

00:57

Council 61, continue 64.

00:59

Okay, 9-6 will be complete.

01:04

24 to handle patrol on engine 61, patrol 66 to complete 750.

01:13

Cyan 164.

01:19

The 21.

01:21

Location given, correct, just south of Olive on 99 northbound.

01:25

Yeah, it's under the canal down in that drainage.

01:33

It looks like this axis is going to be off of 99.

01:38

Yeah, 99.

01:41

Or in the old parking lot.

01:47

Copy. Yup. Talking about other fan and checks the old bar.

01:51

Yeah, affirmative.

01:54

We copy. We copy.

01:56

We'll see that current one.

01:59

Engine and patrol 61 ECCC[1], confirm you copy to copy it complete.

02:15

That's 64 for 91.

02:19

64. 64.

02:20

Yeah,

02:22

your best access will be from the old parking loss, Bannoch.

02:27

Copy, thanks.

Police codes explained

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[1]

ECCC: Central hub for emergency communications and command, typically managed by dispatch personnel.

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