Community Safety and Awareness Report

Monday, February 23rd, 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. 

Provided you have a valid Air Quality burn permit, Monday February 23rd, 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 and Fortuna from 10 until noon.

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobile will be at Wildberries in Arcata, from noon until 6pm. 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 Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm and the Albion PopUp, 3512 Albion Ridge Rd., from 4 until 5pm. 

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. Every Monday, the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Bragg distributes bagged lunches from noon until 12:30pm. 

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.

Tomorrow, and every Tuesday, between noon and 3 pm, you can recharge at the Redway Baptist Church. For those living without a home, Bridging the Gap Ministries will welcome you for a hot meal, electronics recharging, warm clothing, and, as needed, there’s limited outdoor living supplies available. Recharge every Tuesday, that’s tomorrow, from noon to 3pm at the Redway Baptist Church at 1055 Redway Drive. If you have donations of food or warm coats to offer or need additional information call 707-223-1560

Don’t forget to tune in to KMUD this afternoon from 5 to 6pm for The Cannabis Show with your hosts Steve Dodge and Sunshine Cereceda. You can join the conversation by calling 707-923-3911. Don’t miss it.Tune in, listen in, call in, this afternoon beginning at 5pm.

You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8pm, for the The Politically Correct Week In Review, with Josh Golden & Charley Custer. Join the conversation. Call in!  707-923-3911. That’s The Politically Correct Week In Review tonight on Redwood Community Radio, Resistance Radio, K-M-U-D., between 7 and 8pm.

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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