Supervisors hear details of harrowing tent collapse
Bakersfield.com
As the dignitary-filled buses rolled away from the event, the wind did what Witt had worried it would. At 7:36 p.m. the wind peeled the tent like an orange and sent the steel structure crashing onto the inflatable buildings next to it.
“I believe there are people living today because of the decisions made that night,” McQuiston said.
If Witt hadn’t made his call, said Kern County Fire Chief Nick Dunn, there would have been death and destruction.
Kern County would have been on the international news talking about what went wrong, instead of what went right.
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