December 2024

Smoke Near Trinidad? Green Diamond is Burning Up Fuel Hazards Near the Maple Creek Headwaters

Smoky in Trinidad? That’s From Green Diamond Prescribed Burns

Smoke in McKinleyville? That’s Probably Just Green Diamond Burning Up Some Fuel Hazards in Redwood Creek

October 2024

GOOD FIRE: CalFire Is Gonna Torch 300 Acres Near Ettersburg Over the Next Few Days to Restore Oak Woodland Habitat

A Glorious Multi-acre Bonfire in the Table Bluff Area Tomorrow Will Rid the Land of Invasive European Beachgrass

September 2024

Heads Up, Redway! CalFire Is Gonna Torch Some Acreage at the Conservation Camp On Monday

PREDICTION: There Will Very Likely be a Four-Acre Grass Fire in the Table Bluff Area Tomorrow

That Smoke Bubbling Up From Eureka Sewers is Not Foretelling the Imminent Arrival of Beelzebub, Nor is It a Sign of a Major Fire, But Rather It Is a Smoke Test

DON’T PANIC, REDWAY! That Smoke You’ll Probably See Coming From the Conservation Camp Thursday is Only a Prescribed Burn

August 2024

BE AWARE! All Simulated Hell Will Break Loose in the Cal Poly Dorms Tomorrow Evening

They’re Gonna Torch a Building on Tompkins Hill Road Sunday Morning So’s to Train Up New Eel River Valley Firefighters

June 2024

All Simulated Hell Will Break Loose at the California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport Tomorrow Morning

April 2024

Big, Loud Disaster Drill Scheduled at the Blue Lake Rancheria Tomorrow; Businesses Will Remain Open

February 2024

Lockdown at Fortuna High This Morning Cleared After Person of Interest in CHP Investigation Determined Not to be a Threat

November 2023

(UPDATE: MORE SMOKE!) Seeing a Lot of Smoke in the North County? That’s a Controlled Burn

October 2023

SILENCE YOUR BURNER! The FCC is Gonna Blast All the Phones With an Emergency Alert Today

August 2023

Yes, it Is Smoky Out. No, You Should Not Call 911 Because of That

March 2023

LET THE SIRENS WAIL! All Simulated Hell Should Break Loose at 11 This Morning, as the Tsunami Warning System Tests its Gear

February 2023

All Simulated Hell is About to Break Loose in Old Town, Because an Earthquake-Delayed ‘Shop With a Cop’ Event is Happening This Afternoon

October 2022

GET READY to SHAKE OUT! At 10:20 This Morning, All Simulated Hell Will Break Loose to Help YOU Prepare for the Big One

MORE CONTROLLED BURNING TODAY! Calfire is Gonna Light Up Loleta Again, and Will Torch Some Acreage Near Kneeland Tomorrow

SMOKE TEST: Don’t Be Alarmed If You See Smoke Coming Out of The Sewers Over the Next Few Weeks, City of Eureka Says

March 2022

DEBRIEF: The US Civil Air Patrol Reflects Upon a Successful Test Mission, in Which Airmen Took to the Skies to Practice Warning Humboldters About a Tsunami

TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS TEST! The Sirens Will or Should Be Rip-Roaring on the Peninsula Tomorrow, and Manila Residents Are Urged to Practice Getting to Higher Ground

No Local Tsunami Threat From Big Earthquake That Struck Near Fukushima, Japan This Morning

December 2021

Lights and Sirens Downtown? That is Only Shop With a Cop

DON’T WORRY, HSU! Those Screams That Will Emanate From Gist Hall Monday are Only Practice For When There is a Real Active Shooter

August 2021

BE FOREWARNED: All Simulated Hell Will Break Loose in the Humboldt State Dorms Thursday Evening

March 2021

Tsunami Test Today! Get Ready for Sirens and Emergency Alerts (but They’re Not Gonna Buzz Your Cell Phone This Time)

December 2020

Calfire Is Getting Ready to Burn Up Some Kneeland

May 2020

PG&E Choppers Cruising Eureka and South Today, Says Utility; They’re Scoping Gas Lines for Leaks

March 2020

FEAR NOT, CITIZEN: Most of Those Coast Guard Choppers You’ll See Soon Are Merely Sector Humboldt Bay Maintaining and Increasing Their Badassery to Prepare for the Day When They Will Have to Rescue You

December 2019

NON-EMERGENCY: That Unholy Caterwauling of Sirens and Mass Police Presence That’ll Hit Eureka Any Minute Now is Naught but ‘SHOP WITH A COP’

October 2019

Yay, the Power’s Back! What Next? County Offers Tips, Including ‘Prepare for Next Time’ and ‘Shop Local’

NOT HUMBOLDT! PG&E is Shutting Off Power to Nearly 200,000 Customers Again Starting This Afternoon, But Not, We Reiterate, To Humboldt

(UPDATE) FACEBOOK IS MAKING YOU DUMB! No, There is Not Another Mass Power Outage Planned This Week!

July 2019

Cops Swarm Eureka’s West Side Fearing a Shooting, Discover BB Gun

June 2019

First-Response Agencies are Training for a ‘Mass Casualty Incident’ at Winship Middle School Today

April 2019

PG&E Will Be Droning and/or Choppering Humboldt’s Power Poles Over the Next Few Weeks

March 2019

CHOPPERS GALORE! Sector Humboldt Bay is Gonna Be Doing a Whole Lot of Flying Over the Next Two Weeks

HEADS UP, SoHUM! Many of You Will Experience a Power Outage in the Middle of the Night

December 2018

Hear a Bunch of Sirens in Eureka This Morning? Don’t Worry! It Was Just the Annual ‘Shop With a Cop’ Day

October 2018

(UPDATE) That White Goo Found on the Humboldt Courthouse Yesterday Was Nothing Bad, Says County

ONLY A TEST: FEMA is About to Get Up in Your Phone!

July 2018

No Danger of Cutten Being Blown Up by Suspicious Item Thanks to Humboldt Bomb Bot

June 2018

It’s COPTERIN’ Season! PG&E Buzzing Fortuna, Eureka, Arcata Today

May 2018

ONLY A DRILL: Mad River Hospital to Conduct Mass Shooting Simulation Tonight

March 2018

‘ONLY’ A TEST! All Simulated Tsunami Hell is About to Break Loose, as County Tests Emergency Response Network

ATTENTION SHELTER COVE: Here Are the Days You Will Hear Your Cool New Tsunami Siren Blare!

January 2018

Massive Earthquake Strikes Off Alaska; No Tsunami Threat to Humboldt County, West Coast