Editing Bakersfield, California (section)

==== Fire ====
The Bakersfield Fire Department has 14 stations spread across the city.<ref name=stations>{{cite web |title=Bakersfield Fire Department |url=https://www.cafirefighters.com/bakersfield.htm |website=California Firefighters |access-date=March 3, 2015 |archive-date=February 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205052637/http://cafirefighters.com/bakersfield.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Bakersfield Fire Department's communications division, known as ECC (Emergency Communications Center), is located in the Whiting Communications Center in Northeast Bakersfield. ECC is a joint dispatch center for the Kern County, Bakersfield City, and [[California City, California|California City]] Fire Departments. Built in 1988, ECC is responsible for dispatching resources over approximately {{convert|8100|sqmi|km2}}, including 65 fire stations. ECC's approximate call volume is 82,000 calls annually, and it processes emergency and non-emergency fire and medical 911 calls for the entire county of Kern.<ref name=disp>{{cite web |url=http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/fire/fireprevent/emergecomm.htm |title=Emergency Communications Center |work=Bakersfield Fire Department |access-date=February 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060305025301/http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/fire/fireprevent/emergecomm.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2006}}</ref>

The Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the county of Kern, California, USA. With over 625 permanent employees and 100 extra help employees protecting an area spanning over {{convert|8000|sqmi|}}. KCFD provides fire protection services for over 500,000 citizens living in the unincorporated areas of Kern County and the cities of [[Arvin, California|Arvin]], [[Delano, California|Delano]], [[Maricopa, California|Maricopa]], [[McFarland, California|McFarland]], [[Ridgecrest, California|Ridgecrest]], [[Shafter, California|Shafter]], [[Taft, California|Taft]], [[Tehachapi, California|Tehachapi]] and [[Wasco, California|Wasco]]. This agency is contracted to provide dispatch services for the California City Fire Department, Kern Ambulance based in Wasco, and Care Ambulance based in [[Lake Isabella, California|Lake Isabella]]. Over 546 uniformed firefighters are stationed in 46 fire stations throughout the county.

Due to the vast number of [[county island]]s and jagged city limit lines in the south part of Bakersfield, the closest fire station is dispatched to incidents. This often results in city resources being dispatched to county locations and vice versa.