Community Safety & Awareness Report-August 5, 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.
Today, Tuesday, August 5th, Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte and Trinity and Counties have suspended all burns at this time.
Until Mid-August, The Humboldt County Department of Public Works is repairing Bell Springs Road at Post Mile 2.20 & 4.96, north of Island Mountain Road. With an expected completion date in Mid-August. expect delays of up to 30 minutes between 7:30am and 4:30pm during this period.
CalTrans reports the Southbound 101 On Ramp Full Closure From Hooker Creek Rd due to Drainage Work and Expected to end at 7:01pm this evening.
The North Coast Growers Association is hosting (the Old Town Farmers’ Market from 10 until 1pm and) the Fortuna Farmers’ Market from 3 until 6pm today.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting a food distribution in (McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm;) Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; (and in Garberville from 10:30 until noon.)
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobile will be Battle of the Hospitals, 800 E Washington Blvd, in Crescent City from 11 until 4pm. To schedule an appointment to donate, visit nccbb.net.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in (Ukiah from 9 until noon; Mendocino from 1:30 until 3pm; and) in Comptsche from 2 until 4pm . (The Leggett PopUp, at 65100 Drive Thru Tree Rd, is being held from noon until 1pm today.)
(No need to read the following lunch announcements at 3pm.) 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.
Tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8 for The Environment Show with Duff. Join the conversation by calling 707-923-3911. That’s The Environment Show tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on KMUD
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.
