UPDATE, 12:02 p.m.: Ace Humboldt photog and LoCO contributor Mark McKenna pointed his lens at this morning’s blaze. Results below:

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UPDATE, 10:47 am.: The Outpost‘s Ryan Burns is on the scene and sends in the shot above. LoCO readers note that the fire is mostly out now. Apparently, a neighboring billboard was also caught up in the blaze. Also, Humboldt Bay Fire has reportedly doused the neighboring Nilsen Feed building as a precaution.

For the “before photo” of the burned shack, we turn to Google Street View (h/t KHUM):


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The following photo comes from LoCO friend Michele Hackworth who works across the street.

And another from LoCO friend Nicole Log: 

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UPDATE, 10:28 a.m.: Callers in to The Point and KHUM radio report that the building in question is abandoned but used house BT Hydraulics East Bay Machine and Hydraulics.

The mighty Eureka Police Twitter account provides the following street closure information.

Oops. Correction:

KHUM listener “Lou” provides this very vertical video taken from a very safe distance:

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Original post: Details are just beginning to come in about another fire in Eureka near the point where Fourth Street becomes Broadway.

LoCO has a reporter en route. We’ll be updating this post shortly. In the meantime, the below cell phone photos come to us courtesy of LoCO friend Will Startare.

The first photo received comes to us courtesy of LoCO friend Chris Hinton below: