Thursday, December 25th, 2025
KMUD’s new Community Resources and Calendar page is now live on the KMUD website, kmud.org/, under the COMMUNITY dropdown menu. Our improved calendar provides addresses, phone numbers and up to date information for farmers markets, food distributions, public meals, blood drives and other community services.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all tuning in today – thanks for sharing your holidays with us!
Here is the latest road flooding and closure information from CalTrans:
The following roads are flooded:
- Howard Heights
- Cannibal Island Rd .10 mile from Eel River to end of road
- Graham Rd
- Zanes Rd
- Berta Rd
- Old Arcata Rd between Graham Rd and Jacoby Creek Rd
- Fernbridge Dr Northbound Lane
- Ambrosini Lane
- Goble between Dillon Rd and Nissen Rd
- Nissen Rd from Goble Lane to the end closed
The following roads are closed:
- Hall Ave due to the Redwood Acres emergency staging
- Mad River Rd is closed at P.M. 2.75 (Tye City) due to flooding
- Camp Weott at Dillon
- Coffee Creek is closed due to flooding from P.M. 1.00 to 1.25
- Meridian Road closed between P.M. .5 to .9
- Goble Lane from Sage Rd to Fulmor Rd
- Dillon Rd
- Drive Safely!
Provided you have a valid Air Quality burn permit, Thursday, December 25th, is a permissive burn day in Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties. Residents in state responsibility areas must also obtain a Cal Fire burn permit. Please refer to your air quality burn permit for approved burn hours and restrictions.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm; Willow Creek from 10 until noon and in Garberville from 10:30 until noon.
The Food for People mobile pantry will be in Blue Lake, at the Blue Lake Community Resource Center, 111 Greenwood Ave., from 10 until 1pm.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank blood mobile is in Safeway in Arcata from 11 until 3pm. And as always, the Northern California Community Blood Bank is open Monday thru Friday, located at 2524 Harrison Avenue in Eureka. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions inUkiah from 9 until 2pm and theLaytonville PopUp, 100 Cahto Dr., from noon until 1pm.
Lunches are provided for seniors at the Willits Senior Center from 11:45 until 1:00pm, and the Redwood Coast Seniors Center in Fort Bragg from 11:30 until 1:15pm. Plowshares Peace and Justice Center in Ukiah provides a hot meal weekdays from 11:30 until noon.
Meals are provided Monday through Friday at Willits Daily Bread from 4:30 to 5:30pm and at the Mendocino Coast Hospitality House in Fort Bragg at 3pm.
Today from 12-4pm KMUD will air a four-part audio dramatization of L. Frank Baum’s timeless tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with an all-star cast. Tune in for this special holiday programming.
This concludes the Community Safety and Awareness Report, read weekdays at 11 and 3pm and as needed to bring you up to the minute road reports, burn permission status, emergency updates as well as programming information. We encourage our listeners to bookmark our community resources and calendar page for up to date and detailed information of all the services our community offers.