17 News @ Sunrise 02/28/2024

Some of today's top storiesWe begin with breaking news from overnight out of east Bakersfield... where crews are battling another train fire this morning.You can see firefighters... sliding that door open to find a raging fire inside the train. This is on the railroad along Edison Highway... near the East California Avenue intersection. Crews first got word of the fire shortly after 2 A-M. No word yet on how it started... or if anyone was hurt. This is the second time in the past week that a train has caught fire in Bakersfield.An investigation is underway this morning into a crash that left a man dead and two others hurt in Shafter. It happened yesterday morning on Zerker Road... near 7th Standard Road. Four cars were involved. One man died at the scene. Two other drivers were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.Three people were sent to the hospital... after being exposed to chemicals in Boron. The Kern County Hazmat team was called to this scene Monday morning. Investigators say it all started after someone was driving in a car... with a bunch of Mercury spilled inside. After self-decontaminating in the shower of their home... that person was taken to a hospital. Two other people inside the home were also sent to the hospital as a precaution.Still no word on the cause of a fire at a business in east Bakersfield. It happened yesterday morning on Niles Street. When crews arrived, there was heavy smoke coming from the front of the building. Firefighters went room to room battling the flames. They also cut holes in the roof to allow the heat and smoke from the fire to escape. No injuries were reported. A Bakersfield man will spend a decade behind bars for selling pills -- laced with fentanyl -- that killed a woman. It happened back in 20-20. Posecuters say the woman who Marcus Randall sold those pills to... died from an overdose. Randall pleaded guilty to the federal charges last April. And this week, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.