Community Safety & Awareness Report-June 19, 2025

Thursday, June 19th, 2025

KMUD’s new Community Resources and Calendar page is now live on the KMUD website, wordpress-1438018-5376424.cloudwaysapps.com, under the COMMUNITY dropdown menu. Our improved calendar provides up to date information for farmers markets, food distributions, public meals, blood drives and other community services. This public calendar allows our community members to better plan their days; providers can share and sync their organization’s google calendar. Moving forward, we will continue to add events and information that benefit our community.

-CalTrans reports Route 36 to Remain Closed in Humboldt County for Two Weeks as Crews Work to Clear Landslide. Caltrans District 1 and its contractors are working to stabilize and clear a large landslide that fully closed State Route (SR) 36 east of Swimmer’s Delight near Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park on May 31. 

The North Coast Growers Association is hosting the Henderson Center Farmers’ Market  from 10 until 1:30pm. 

In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in Blue Lake from 10 until 1pm; McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm;  Willow Creek from 10 until 1pm; Loleta from 3 until 5pm; Fortuna from 1 until 2pm; Rio Dell from 9 until noon; and, in Garberville from 10:30 until noon.

The Food for People Mobile Produce Pantry is at the Orick Elementary School from noon until 2pm. 

The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles are at Safeway in Arcata from 10 until 4pm and in Fortuna at Ray’s Place from 1 until 6pm.

In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting a food distribution at the Ukiah Community Food Bank from 9 until 2:00pm. 

(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. 

You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8 for All Things Reconsidered with Erik Kirk. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation. That’s All Things Reconsidered tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on Redwood Community Radio, KMUD. 

Reminder, 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. 

Today, Thursday  June 19th, is a permissive burn day in Humboldt, Mendocino, and Del Norte. Trinity County has banned all burns at this time. 

As of May 1st, , the CAL FIRE Humboldt – Del Norte Unit requires both Standard and Non-Standard Burn Permit holders in State Responsibility Areas, to also obtain a CAL FIRE Burn Permit. A North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District (NCUAQMD) burn permit is still required year-round and contains the permittee’s designated burn zone.

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 new community resources and calendar page for up to date and detailed information of all the services our community offers, including a new, exhaustive 88- page compilation from the DHHS.