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Important to note that they are both remotely located on the eastern side of the sierra, and the roads have been impacted in getting resources into the area continues to be a challenge. it is a little bit of a benefit that just two days ago there wa a six-point for earthquake that occurred there and we had a noble of resources deployed in the area in support of kern county. we were able to turn those resources around they were just released shortly before the seven-point one and allowed us to have a pretty significant amount of resources available almost immediately. we have been in contact wi...

Hearing from him as well. also now we're getting at least a little bit of good news. >> they are working fast. >> we will come back here and g into this news conference that' happening with california governor's office of emergency services giving us an update right now. let's go ahead and listen into what they have to say. >> governor newsom's director o his governor's office of emergency services, going to give you a quick overview of th situation in kern county and th city of ridgecrest. as you know over the last coupl of days there have been a serie of earthquakes that have occurred in the...

Governor signing onto that so a least on the state level, financially, things are covered. all the overtime for first responders doing everything the can is covered. we hear from our congressmen here that the white house has been in touch with him and sara feinstein and the ball will get rolling with fema here. >> that is the good news, they really did have all of their me in place where they needed to b at the right time after yesterday's earthquake, so with all the volunteers coming in on their days off on the holiday, they really kind of had everything going there so they were ready for som...

Are currently providing to most of kern county and san bernardino county. governor newsom activated the state operations center at the highest level tonight and provided really right now a significant amount of fire and rescue mutual aid from the los angeles riverside, san bernardino and fresno county areas to include urban search and rescue teams, fire strike teams, firefighters, hazardous materials response units. emergency medical services, ambulance strike teams, and personnel. roughly over 100 mutual aid personnel have been dispatched in support of these various fires and the support of b...

Communications is out. as well as south of ridgecrest in san bernardino in the town o krone, a small community of about 2,000. they're are reports of some building collapse and power outages in some gas leaks there as well. we will give you briefings from the various agencies represente behind me. you talk about conditions on ou roads and some of the other impacts here at the state operations center, we are fully activated at the highest level. earlier tonight governor newsom did talk to the white house and requested a presidential emergency declaration to suppor our operations here in the sta...