Community Safety and Awareness Report

Friday, August 1st, 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, Monday, August 4th,  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. 

The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Miranda Farmers’ Market  from 2 until 6pm today.   

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting a food distribution in McKinleyville from 10 until 3:45pm (and in Fortuna, from 10 until noon.)

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobile will be at the Fieldbrook Fire Department, 4584 Fieldbrook Rd, in McKinleyville from 4:00 – 7:30pm.

In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions in Fort Bragg from 10 until 3:45pm. The Albion PopUp, at 3512 Albion Ridge Rd, will take place from 4 until 5pm. 

(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. Every Monday, the Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Bragg distributes bagged lunches between noon and 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.

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. Tune in, listen in, call in, this afternoon beginning at 5pm.

Tune in tonight at for Fire Radio. That’s tonight from 7-8 PM right here on the MUD. This is a call in show! Your questions and ideas are welcomed! 707-923-3911–  

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.