Wofford Heights News

More than 100 residents from around this mountain community northeast of Bakersfield packed the local Odd Fellows hall Tuesday night to express their hopes and concerns regarding plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to fix several problems associated with Isabella Lake's two aging dams.

A precautionary evacuation alert has been issued for Wofford Heights residents in the area below Split Mountain Way as firefighters work on a 20-acre fire.

Kern County Fire and US Forest service crews are battling a 20-acre grass fire in Wofford Heights.

Kern County Fire and US Forest service crews are battling a 20-acre grass fire in Wofford Heights.A Kern County Fire officials say the fire in the 100 block of Split Mountain Way may have started from a grinder.A Crews were called around 11:30 TuesdayA morning.A A Three people have been injured from the fire, two of those are being treated for ... (more)

U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Cindy Thill says the 20-acre fire is burning in Wofford Heights, an unincorporated community in Kern County.