Community Safety and Awareness Report

Thursday, February 5th, 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. 

Today, Thursday February 5th, is a Permissive Burn day. Burn permits are required for ALL open burning. Burn hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Burn piles are limited to 4’ x 4’, unless otherwise stated by a fire agency. You can only burn vegetative matter. 

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3pm; Willow Creek at the Community Resource Center,38883 CA-299 from 10 until noon;Myers Flat at theFire Station, 54 Myers Ave., from noon until 3pm and Garberville from 10:30 until noon.

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles will be at Murphy’s Market – Glendale, 1451 Glendale Dr, McKinleyville from 10 until 4pm and Cal Poly Humboldt – B St, 1 Harpst St, Arcata, from 11 until 4p.  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 9 until 2pm and the Willits PopUp, 1250 Blosser Ln, from 10 until 11:30am. 

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.

Members of KMUD are encouraged to nominate themselves, or others, for the elected Members’ Representative position on the Redwood Community Radio Board of Directors.  The nomination period ends February 15.  Nominations are to be sent to [email protected].  Thank you for considering this way of serving your community radio station. 

Join Sue Moloney for another addition of “Off the Cuff” tonight (and the first Thursday of every month) at 7pm on KMUD radio.  Your calls are welcome at 707-923-3911.  Tune in at 7pm for “Off the Cuff” right here on KMUD.

Tune in Feb 6th for ‘Discussions‘ when we will be joined by Dylan Rothenberg from Wu Mountain Tea to talk about the growing, processing, chemistry, and health benefits of Tea. That’s Feb. 6th at 7pm on Redwood Community Radio. 

Sunday Feb 8th at 1:30pm tune in to Mindful Mud with Flurina Niggli where her guest will be Dr Yang from YMAA, world famous martial arts master. (Kong Fu, Tai Chi, Qi Gong). They will talk about how we can cultivate the mind and body to deep levels through these ancient arts. That’s Sunday February 8th at 1:30pm on the MUD.

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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