Emergencies

September 2018

(UPDATE: FOUND) SILVER ALERT: 87-Year-Old Lady With Dementia Missing From Her Myrtletown Home; Please Contact Police if You See Her

A Big, Goofy California Sea Lion Flopped Himself Up Onto the Highway Last Night, Causing Everyone a Lot of Trouble

(UPDATE) Woman Killed at Shasta Lake After Group Rolls Large Log Down Nearby Hillside

August 2018

Manhunt for ‘Missing’ Canadian Mother Who Didn’t Text Her Boyfriend Back for a Few Days Called Off After She and Her Daughter are Found Enjoying Their Planned Camping Trip to Orleans

Bomb Squad Called to McKinleyville to Deal With Suspicious Object, Which Actually Turned Out to Be a Bomb

(UPDATE) Stranded Family Rescued From North Jetty Rocks After Woman Falls Into Water

Portion of E Street Shut Down By Man on Roof Suffering From Mental Health Issues

Bomb Squad Blows Up ‘Suspicious Object’ in the Hiller Park Men’s Room; No Threat to Public

Holy Simulated Emergencies, Batman! HSU Will Be Holding a Realistic Fire Drill Complete With Smoking Buildings and Actors Crying for Help

Many Seafaring Boats Broke Down Saturday, But Sector Humboldt Bay Naturally Rescued Everyone at Risk

July 2018

More Power Outages Hit Mendo and Lake Counties, Affecting 50k People; Gas Unavailable; Traffic Backed Up

Emergency Water Releases May Cause Fluctuating Levels in Trinity River; Trinity Power Plant Impacted By Carr Fire

(UPDATE) Tens of Thousands of Customers Without Electricity; Mendocino, Lake Counties Hit With Massive Power Outage

Sheriff’s Office Asks for Help Finding ‘Possibly Disoriented’ Man Last Seen on Logging Road South of Eureka

June 2018

Arcata Fire District Credits Bystanders With Saving the Life of a Man Experiencing Coronary Event This Morning

Dog Attack in Arcata Mobile Home Park Monday Will Likely Lead to Euthanization

(UPDATE) Arcata 14-Year-Old Missing Since Last Week; Police Seeking Public Help Locating Him

May 2018

State Steps in to Help Humboldt Investigate Alarming Rise in HIV Cases

Man Likely Saved the Lives of Two People Clinging to Ocean Rocks in Crescent City, Sheriff’s Office Says

BE AWARE: Some of Humboldt’s Beaches Are Far More Deadly Than Others, National Weather Service Warns

April 2018

TRINITY SWIMMERS BEWARE: They’re About to Send a Big Blast of Water Downstream, and You Don’t Want to Be Caught in That

UPDATE: (VIDEO) Man Miraculously Rescued From Capsized Survey Boat Off Harbor Oregon Coast

Eight Year Old Who was Swept Out to Sea Near Big Lagoon Has Died, HCSO Says

(UPDATE) 8-Year-Old Child Airlifted to Hospital After Coast Guard Pulls Her From Surf Near Big Lagoon

Coast Guard Conducting Rescue Efforts Near Big Lagoon

(UPDATE) Child’s Woman’s Body Found in Eel River Seven Miles From Where Thottapilly Family is Believed to Have Crashed

Numerous Agencies are Searching the Eel River by Land, Water and Sky for Signs of Car Possibly Linked to Missing Thottapilly Family

BOAT on FIRE! Commercial Fishing Vessel Catches Flame Off Table Bluff; Sector Humboldt Bay Badasses Speed to Rescue by Sea and by Air

CHP Suspects ‘Felony was Committed’ During Tragic Mendo Coast Crash That Killed at Least Five According to Court Documents Obtained by Oregon News Station

March 2018

Two People Airlifted to Safety After Boat Overturns In River Near Miranda

(UPDATE) Mass Power Outage in Hoopa, Orleans Closes School in the Klamath-Trinity Area Today

Hayfork Man Severs Artery While Showing CHP Officers His Radio-Controlled Airplane; Officers Apply Tourniquet That Saves Man’s Arm and Maybe His Life

Stabbing Victim Treated at Humboldt Bay Fire Station

(UPDATE) Second Body Found Near Mouth of Eel River In Less Than Two Weeks

Eureka Man Killed by Felled Tree Branch in Hydesville

PG&E Sending In the Helichoppers to Restore Power to Backwoods Humboldters, Mendonesians

(VIDEO) Hundreds of Pounds of ‘50s-Era Explosives Found in Barn of Newly-Purchased Shasta Home; Sheriff’s Office Detonates Some, Plans to Destroy the Rest by Setting the Barn on Fire

February 2018

SNO-CAT RESCUE! Sheriff’s Office Deploys in the Middle of the Night to Save Errant Snowmobiler

‘Severely Decomposed’ Body Found Near Mouth of Eel River at Centerville Beach

(VIDEO) Sector Humboldt Bay Rescues Two Men Stranded on Pewetole Island in Trinidad

Fisherman Finds Dead Man in the Van Duzen River; No Initial Signs of Foul Play

(UPDATE: FOUND!) EPD Seeks Help Locating 83-Year-Old Eureka Woman Who Went Missing Early This Morning

UPDATE: (VIDEO) Crew Member on Local Commercial Crabbing Ship Was Lost at Sea This Morning, Coast Guard Says

Sector Humboldt Bay Rescues Commercial Fishing Crew Taking on Water 8 Miles South of the Jetties

January 2018

Maybe Today is a Good Day to Sign Up for Humboldt Alert Emergency Notification

Stray Humboldt County Mutt Goes on to Become Disaster Search Dog; Assists With Recent Montecito Mudslide Rescue Efforts

Search and Rescue Operation at Mad River Beach Last Night Finds Hikers 150 Yards From the Parking Lot

December 2017

Ring in the New Year by Preparing For Inevitable Disaster, County Health Department Suggests

Sheriff’s Office Rescues Man Lost Two Days in the Woods Between Blue Lake and Willow Creek

FedEx Driver Rescued Near Happy Camp After Route 96 Crash Left Him Stranded Overnight Down Steep Embankment


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