Community Safety and Awareness Report

Wednesday, January 14th, 2026

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. 

The following Humboldt County roads are flooded:

  • Cannibal Road (Cannibal Island) at the intersection of Cock Robin Island Road and to the beach

The following Humboldt County roads are closed:

  • Meridian Road at mile marker .5 to .9
  • Coffee Creek Road at mile marker 1.00 to 1.25
  • Maple Creek Road 7 miles from Blue Lake

Today, Wednesday January 14th,  Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity Counties have suspended all burns at this time due to weather conditions.

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; Arcata from 4 until 6pm; Fortuna from 10 until noon; and Garberville from 2 until 4pm. 

The Food for People Mobile Produce Pantry will be in Rio Dell, at the Rio Dell Volunteer Fire Department, 50 Center St., from 10 until 12:30pm

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be hosted by Murphy’s Market and Deli,  4020 Walnut Dr, in Eureka between 10 until 4pm and in Trinidad, at 1 Main St, between 1 and 7pm. 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 in Ukiah from noon until 4pm Fort Bragg from 1:30 until 3pm; andWillits from 1 until 4:30pm. 

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.

You are invited to tune in to KMUD, Redwood Community Radio, tonight from 7 to 8pm, for the Healy Senior Center Board of Directors Talk Show. Tune in and be informed. Questions and comments are welcome by calling in at 707-923-3911. That’s the Healy Senior Center Board of Directors Talk Show tonight between 7 and 8PM only on the mud. 

The KMUD Board of Directors invites everyone to the Annual Meeting of the Members on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 1:00pm.  This will be in person at the Healy Center in Redway and also a Zoom.  We’ll hear reports, hear from board candidates for election and appointment (two appointments this spring), and hear Open Time comments. The Zoom link will be posted on the website before the meeting. Those attending in person are welcome to bring a snack to share. 

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.

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