Petition for the city to purchase the lot, and operate a retail space rental center similar to their Foodworks Culinary center for business development, with priority for the affected businesses, …

Arcata Fire desperately needs their own ladder truck for the district. This is why Arcata Fire pushed back on the approval of the new CPH student housing. It is a …

I was on the Arcata Gold Route bus around 3 p.m. as we were heading down H Street and got diverted. I decided to stay away from the scene and …

Shocked and saddened. Long time lover of Northtown Books from when it was at its original location in north Arcata. I had just recently shown some out of town visitors …

A downvote? Really? Please specify the source of your umbrage. Oh, you woke up for another day? It rained? What?

Last I read, the ruptured gas main is unconfirmed as the cause, but the billowing flames seemed especially ferocious in the pics and videos. Just an overwhelming tragedy. Very sad. …

https://uploads.disquscdn.c… Such a Loss

Don’t bet on it…Or If you’re playing… I suppose I could put some money down.

And all the people who lost everything but the clothes on their back. Thank heavens for the Red Cross.

HATE is a terrible drug.

yep i remember Hensel’s, years ago…

Or a quarter dollar.

There’s a GFM for a couple who had just moved into their apartment that day. The Uhaul in those pictures was likely theirs. Devastating

There’s a GFM on Reddit for Northtown. Also a few floating around for the residences of the apartments. One of the tenants had just moved in YESTERDAY and lost everything …

Maybe 2027 will be better 🫠

Interesting name for it.

OMG this year already. Gah.

Like some alien plant spore coming out of the ground.

I’m so sad for arcata and all the businesses lost and damaged. Looks like the fire fighters and all who responded were superstars in their fight. Good news that nobody …

Especially with that awful wind combined with the ruptured gas main; it’s a miracle the whole block didn’t go up. At least last night’s rain helped.I’m going to walk over …

On RHBB there’s a short audio interview with Dante of Northtown Books, and he mentioned having fire walls. Not that that did much good.

Yeah, I could see that. There were big flare-ups and things exploding when it really got going. But, it didn’t start that way as far as I could tell. I …

There was definitely a ruptured gas main, but I think it ruptured because of the fire.

Do you have any facts or just speculation?

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Old timber frame buildings with no fire walls, built right up against each other, sometimes with doorways cut between them, often bad wiring, and no fire suppression systems. That’s how …

changed forever

Perhaps we could all fundraise for Northtown Books to make a come back, or do like Cafe Brio and become investors? This is too important a cultural institution in our …

Perhaps Jerry Martien can publish another edition of “Upriver/Downriver” and include previously published, as well as new work, about Northtown Books and the role it played in the community since …

We all like to gripe about water bills, but consider that during the long struggle to extinguish this fire, when crews were dumping enormous amounts of water from several hydrants, …