Community Safety & Awareness Report- June 25, 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.
In Humboldt, Food for People is hosting food distributions in McKinleyville from 10 until 3:00pm; Eureka from 10 until 3:45pm; Arcata from 4 until 6pm; Fortuna from 10am until noon; Honeydew from 3 until 4pm; Petrolia from 11am until noon; and Garberville from 2 until 4pm. The Food For People Mobile Produce Pantry will be in Hoopa today at the Hupa Shopping Center between 10am and noon.
The Northern California Community Blood Bank’s blood mobiles are at the Eureka Elks Club, at 445 Herrick Ave., from noon until 6pm and in Rio Dell, at 675 Wildwood Avenue, from 11 until 5pm.
In Mendocino, the Mendocino Food Network is hosting food distributions at the Ukiah Food Bank from noon until 4pm; the Fort Bragg Food Bank from 10 until 3:45pm; and the Willits Community Services and Food Bank from 1 until 4:30pm. The Mendo Food Network is holding an official ribbon cutting for their warehouse at 1250 Blosser Ln in Willits on Saturday, June 28, 11-3pm. The ceremony will be at 12pm. This event represents their first location in inland Mendocino County, and the warehouse gives them the ability to more efficiently receive and distribute food to our 30+ emergency food partners throughout the county, including food banks, pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers, and more. The event is open to the community, so feel free to invite colleagues, friends, and family!
(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 can help to keep our community trash-free by joining the Eel River Clean-up Project tomorrow, and now, every Thursday. Join ERCP tomorrow at 9:30am at the Garberville Vet’s Park, across from Dazey’s, to help keep Southern Humboldt roadsides trash free.
You are invited to tune in to KMUD tonight from 7 to 8 for Homegrown Tomatoes with Bettye and Nadine. You may call 707-923-3911 to join the conversation about all things gardening. That’s Homegrown Tomatoes tonight between 7 and 8 pm only on 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, Wednesday, June 25th, 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.
