List of Reports
Multiple AG fires
Monday, December 16, 2024, 02:00 AM
Description:
I was driving north on the 99 and saw a lot of burning happening east of the 99 just south of Laredo. ...
Large flames from Alon Refinery
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 09:32 AM
Description:
There are currently two flares on at the Alon Refinery that have huge flames coming out. This doesn’t look like the usual flaring. ...
Quemando basura y llantas
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 06:49 AM
Description:
Dos casas en la area de Hill-top siguen quemando basura que creo yo contiene plastico y llantas. El olor y el humo son muy fuertes que provocan disfilcutades para respirar. Ususalmente esta sucediendo en la noche hasta en las madrugadas. Por favor investiguen porque asi no se pueded vivir con la ...
White smoke going from garlic company
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 06:53 AM
Description:
I was driving south on the 99 and noticed a white cloud with an opacity of around 25 to 30% coming from the north side of the garlic company facility. The cloud was staying low to the ground and traveling Northwest. The cloud was not dispersing or acting like vapor. It was a rolling cloud. This happ ...
Olores fuertes de llanta quemada
Monday, November 11, 2024, 09:22 AM
Description:
Hay un olor fuerte que huele a llantas quemadas. El olor ha estado desde la mañana y está tan fuerte el olor que me está empezando a doler la cabeza. El viento viene desde la refinería a mi casa. Creo que los olores fuertes vienen de la refinería. ...
Wearhouse fire
Saturday, November 9, 2024, 01:24 AM
Description:
BPD came buy the house and told us that the huge wearhouse fire could burn all day and to stay inside. The huge smoke close is hovering close to my house.. Is the smoke dangerous? Will someone let us know why it it dangerous to stay outside? ...
Highly toxic flammable gas leak in Taft
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 09:26 AM
Description:
An order to stay inside for Taft residents has been given this morning due to a highly toxic flammable gas leak. Re[ort from Kern County Fire Department below: "A hazardous materials incident on South Lake Rd has prompted a SHELTER IN PLACE for the following zone: KRN-271-D. If you are within th ...
Highly toxic and flammable gas leak
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 04:30 AM
Description:
Someone told me to stay in my house and it wasn’t safe to go outside. I am a caretaker for a special needs person and felt unsafe in my home due to my swamp cooler. I need to know if I should evacuate. ...
chemical-like smell
Friday, October 25, 2024, 05:57 AM
Description:
There is a very irritable smell that is in the air. It has been going on for a few weeks now. The smell gets worse in the evenings from 5:30pm on. ...
chemical-like smell
Friday, October 25, 2024, 05:54 AM
Description:
There is a very irratable smell that is in the air. It has been going on for a few weeks now. The smell gets worse in the evenings from 5:30 on. ...
Olores fuertes de refinería
Monday, October 14, 2024, 09:19 AM
Description:
muy buenos días sólo quería comentarte qué ahorita ay un olor fuerte! a gas de la refinería creo la no tienen control! Cada rato pasa eso ...
Loud hissing and smells coming from refinery
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 10:00 AM
Description:
There is a very loud hissing sound coming from the Refinery. It sounds like gas or air being released at a very high pressure, I can hear the hissing inside my home. There is a foul odor as well and it's 10pm ...
Sulfur smells every morning
Sunday, October 6, 2024, 10:38 AM
Description:
I live near the refinery on Panama Lane. Almost every single morning in between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. there is a pretty strong sulfur smell. The last 2 days the smell has been very strong and I have been heaving headaches. ...
Olores fuertes en las mañanas
Sunday, October 6, 2024, 10:30 AM
Description:
En las mañanas hay olores muy fuertes. El olor es más fuerte en las mañanas entre las 2 de la mañana y las 9. Últimamente no salgo porque me siento mal estar afuera ...
H2S spikes at refinery
Sunday, October 6, 2024, 09:59 AM
Description:
The Kern energy monitor spiked twice this morning. This is the 4th leak spike in 2 days from the facility. Any updates for on the cause of the spikes in H2S ...
Nos salimos de la casa por olores fuertes
Sunday, October 6, 2024, 09:46 AM
Description:
My husband went outside to play with our son in the yard this morning and there was a very strong smell of propane gas in the air. He got a headache and he felt that his nose was getting dry. We decided to leave for a little because my husband was not feeling well and the smell was so strong. ...
Pesticide spray drift
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 02:35 AM
Description:
There was a thick cloud moving from a field into homes. I had oil specks on my windshield after driving through the cloud ...
Pesticide spray drift
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 02:35 AM
Description:
Early in the morning a thick white cloud with high opacity limited visibility to a few hundred feet. There was also a horrible smell. The dust was blowing onto homes and cars including a school bus were forced to drive through the cloud ...
Pozo ruidoso junta a mi casa (Loud Noises from Oil Well)
Thursday, September 5, 2024, 07:56 AM
Description:
I un poso cercas de mi casa. Ha estado apagado por un buen rato, pero ahora lo prendieron. Está prendido entre la noche y en la madrugada. Hace mucho ruido el pozo y se siente que la casa tiembla. English Translation: Yes, there is a well near my house. It has been off for a while, but now it ha ...
Hissing coming from refinery
Friday, August 9, 2024, 12:35 PM
Description:
12am Their is a load hissing coming from the kern ernergy plant started smelling the begining of potential of that smell ...
Hissing coming from refinery
Friday, August 9, 2024, 12:35 PM
Description:
12am Their is a load hissing coming from the kern ernergy plant started smelling the begining of potential of that smell ...
Strong smell near tomato plant
Monday, August 5, 2024, 08:50 AM
Description:
Strong foul pungent smell near tomato plant and hard to breathe. Carried by wind. ...
Sulfur like smells in the early mornings
Saturday, July 20, 2024, 07:16 AM
Description:
Almost every night around 2:00 a.m. I start to smell a sulfur like smell lingering in the air. In the mornings the smell makes its way into the house. I have all the fans on but it's not helping. The smell is very distinct and has a sulfur or rotten egg smell. It's different than the smell that come ...
Smoke from fire
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 09:26 AM
Description:
Fuller Acres is covered in smoke right now. I passed a fire with black smoke near Hermosa and Muller road. It's so bad that Kern energy is covered in smoke also. It smells bad and it's getting into the house ...
Olor a gas proviniente de la partre Este de Hilltop
Saturday, July 13, 2024, 08:50 AM
Description:
Hay un olor de gas que esta proveniendo de de la parte Este de Hilltop y que esta causando varios molestares a varios residentes. La direccion de el viento proviene de el Norte/Este. Al principio yo estaba asumiendo que el olor originaba de la refineria localizada en Panama, pero despues de maneja ...
Olores fuertes en las mañanas
Friday, July 12, 2024, 08:15 AM
Description:
Hay olores muy fuertes en las mañanas. Toda esta semana me he despertado a olores que llegan hasta dentro de la casa. Últimamente siento que tengo problemas con la respiración. Los olores son muy feos, a veces da olor de camarón podrido. ...
Smells from refinery
Friday, July 12, 2024, 05:28 AM
Description:
There has been a strong smell coming from the refinery in the morning. The smell has been strong and entering my house. ...
Strong smells from refinery
Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 08:26 AM
Description:
I was near the corner of Panama and weedpatch and smelled strong smells from the refinery. It kind of smells like sulfur. The smells have been around from more then an hour ...
No Water for Entire Neighborhood
Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 07:55 AM
Description:
Since the early morning of Saturday, June 22nd 2024, the entire neighborhood around Shirley Lane Elementary School, including my home, has not had water access. Most of us were not advised that the water would be shut down either. It is typical of the Victor’s Water employees to not inform us of s ...
Water issues
Monday, June 24, 2024, 05:19 AM
Description:
Our neighborhood receives water through Victory Mutual Water Company. It is ran by a man named Bill White. On Friday I guess the motor/pump went out on our well. There is another pump that went out over a year ago and never repaired. This has left our neighborhood without water. Bill said it would b ...
Humo innecesario de los vendedores ambulantes.
Saturday, June 8, 2024, 11:22 AM
Description:
Humo innecesario de los vendedores ambulantes que no respetan la consideracion de los residentes. Addicionalmente, la tierra ques se levanta por los vehiclulos que llegan a comprar, se necesita precaucion cuando se maneja en las carreteras. ...
Reporte de daños a la salud
Friday, June 7, 2024, 07:01 AM
Description:
Por medio de El presente Quiero comunicarles que en nuestra area estan exparciendo un pesticida El cual esta afectando la salud a nuestras familia las cuales estan presentando sin Tomas de vomito dolor de cabeza estomago y Muchas alergias efectando nuestras respiracion y la de nuestros hijos llegand ...
Chemical smell
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 08:58 AM
Description:
I believe almond fields have been sprayed, the smell is very potent making our heads hurt & even vomit ...
Pesticide Smell
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 08:57 AM
Description:
The snell of pesticides have been lingering for a few days. Specially stronger beginning 6/5/24 in the evening to overnight. ...
Strong Oder
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 08:55 AM
Description:
The smell is strong and it makes me feel yucky. ...
Sick because pesticides
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 08:13 AM
Description:
I fell sick o get vomiting headache and dizz i weak up at 4: am and smell so bad is a pesticides what put in the almond tree right now is 8: am is smell the same we can't do either outside ...
Pesticides.
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 08:02 AM
Description:
They have been spraying almond trees for a number of days. Last night was bad effecting breathing and burning eyes. This morning chemical order remained inside of home. ...
Pesticides
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 05:45 AM
Description:
Olía feo causó dolor de cabeza, vomito a mi y a mi esposo ...
Large fire
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 04:50 AM
Description:
Large fire seen 30 mins out. Had been burning a minimum of an hour . North of Lost Hills ...
Pesticides
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 02:37 AM
Description:
Smell very bad chemical coming inside my house ...
Ag Burning
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 11:59 AM
Description:
I was going south on the 99 and saw a fire just north of the corpus road exit on the west side. There was a smaller fire, and a larger and darker plume of white smoke about 100 yards south also. ...
Kern oil Refinery
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 10:45 AM
Description:
Kern oil refinery flare started at 10am ...
Smoke coming from the Kern Energy Refinery
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 09:48 AM
Description:
We noticed the flare turn off and there is smoke coming from the tanks close to Panama Lane and Weedpatch HWY. The smoke could be coming from behind the tanks. This is happening right now. ...
Smoke coming from the Kern Energy Refinery
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 09:48 AM
Description:
We noticed the flare turn off and there is smoke coming from the tanks close to Panama Lane and Weedpatch HWY. The smoke could be coming from behind the tanks. This is happening right now. ...