17 News @ Sunrise 07/01/2024

Some of today's top storiesa wild crash leaves one person dead...and police are now looking for the driver who took off. It happened yesterday at the intersection of East California Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue.    Police say that's where a driver hit another car -- and the passenger in the car that was hit... jumped out. Officers say they're still investigating the crash...and looking for the driver.A woman was sent to the hospital and a man was arrested after a rollover crash in Southwest Bakersfield Saturday night. It happened at the intersection of Panama Lane and Buena Vista Road just before midnight.    You can see crews using the jaws of life to chew through the door to pull out the woman passenger who's pinned inside the overturned jeep.    She was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.    Police say the man who was driving was intoxicated.    He was booked into jail for DUI.    If you have any information on this case, call police.In your 17 crime watch......    The SWAT faced off with a man who barricaded himself in a southwest Bakersfield home Saturday.    17's Rob Hagan has the very latest.Firefighters raced to the call of a reinforced structure fire yesterday evening in Southeast Bakersfield.    This happened just before 5:30 at the back of a home off of Tyree Toliver Street.    A woman even pulls out a garden hose to assist crews and keep the fire from spreading to nearby homes.    Flames burned the fence and other structures in the alley.    The fire was eventually knocked down.    No injuries were reported.    The cause of the fire is under investigation.a few big rigs that burst into flames Saturday night.    County firefighters found the semis on fire in back lot of Bakersfield Truck Center.    Crews are still trying to figure out how the trucks caught fire.    No one was hurt.