#Update: Kari Nelson and her dog have been located alive by a search team. Rescue crews are currently working to extract the two safely. Injuries are unknown. More information will be released tomorrow.
#Update: Crews continue searching for missing woman Kari Nelson in Southern #Humboldt. The Honeydew Volunteer Fire Department is assisting in this search. Mutual aid has been requested through @Cal_OES for additional support should the search continue into tomorrow.
Sergeant Cory Crnich of the Eureka Police Department tells Andrew Goff this all began from a call they received from someone associated with the Bayshore Mall. A single shot was fired by an EPD officer at “an animal.” No citizens were injured. No officers were injured, and there was no threat to the public, Crnich says.
More information should be available tomorrow.
Going Down @ 6:18 p.m.
Photos: Andrew Goff.
Bystanders tell the Outpost’s Andrew Goff, who is at the scene of the officer-involved shooting in Eureka, that they believe they heard five shots and that two dogs had been hit. (NOTE: The EPD says this is incorrect, above.)
This is all developing, of course. We’ll have more information later today or tomorrow.
todd / 6:09 p.m.
It sounds like shots were fired by the officer at the dog. It is unknown at this time if the dog was hit
todd / 6:07 p.m.
EPD has subjects detained. This appears to have started in the area of Bayshore Mall where another subject ran from EPD officers and was detained in the parking lot. No injuries have been reported to officers or suspects at this time.
todd / 6:01 p.m.
Eureka Foot Pursuit w/ Shots Fired And EPD officer is reporting that he was attacked by a dog during a foot pursuit of a male through the greenbelt behind the Six Rivers Forest Service Headquarters and shots fired have been fired. Now out with multiple subjects screaming, requesting additional units. E watch units are coming on duty and responding code 3
Engine 1274 is on scene of the reported vegetation fire and advises other responding units can cancel. Copter 909 is clearing and returning to Kneeland
todd / 3:21 p.m.
McKinleyville Area Vegetation Fire: Report of a fire on Green Diamond property north of Murray Rd. with Green Diamond advising possible access from the area of Murray and Hughs Way; For Cal Fire, Arcata Fire all call, Westhaven Fire, Fieldbrook Fire, Copter 102; Responding units stage at the gate
unofficial / 4:18 a.m.
Per Willow Creek Chief 9204, Hoopa Ambulance advises that the victim is 11-44 [deceased]; Fire personnel are remaining on scene for now
unofficial / 4:04 a.m.
Willow Creek Fire is clear to go in, they report that Hoopa Ambulance is not on scene yet
unofficial / 4:02 a.m.
Re Hwy 96 call, CPR in progress
unofficial / 3:58 a.m.
Willow Creek Chief 9204 in area and staging pending HCSO’s OK to go in
unofficial / 3:54 a.m.
Willow Creek, reported assault or possibly
gunshot victim down & unresponsive, Hwy 96 north of Willow Creek; HCSO, Willow Creek fire and ambulance responding
The following was posted on the Fortuna Police Department’s social media page at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night:
The Fortuna Police Department is aware of the Snapchat school threat circulating social media. We are in active communication with school officials and are actively investigating.
Going Down @ 2:23 p.m.
As part of LoCO’s continuing quest to let you know anytime Humboldt is mentioned out in the wider world, we must note that Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman and recent Hoopa guest Anthony Kiedis is today’s guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, by all accounts the most-listened to podcast on this planet.
At one point during their three-hour discussion, Rogan and Kiedis veered onto the topic of cultural appropriation, which prompted Kiedis to bring up a unique little show he’d played last week in an isolated part of Northern California. You can hear the exchange in the clip below.
“Code 4 on Union” [sounds like no suspects were found, several ofcrs are leaving]
unofficial / 9:21 p.m.
Officers are inside checking the apartment on Union, caller had told them the subjects may have left after she called
unofficial / 9:14 p.m.
Eureka reported burglary in progress 2300 block of Union St, caller confronted approx 4 persons inside her apartment; EPD units responding, caller will now be outside
Did you know you ARE NOT supposed to stand in a doorway during an #earthquake? The safest action you can take is to “Drop, Cover, and Hold On.” Join us in practicing this life-saving action on Oct. 20 at 10:20 am #ShakeOutpic.twitter.com/lbHijZiUDj
It’s smoky down in Ferndale and environs this afternoon!
And that’s because Calfire is conducting a controlled burn in the Table Bluff area. They’re taking out about 12 acres of invasive beach grass, which apparently throws up a fine plume.
No emergency!
Going Down @ 4:19 p.m.
They’re making things all secure-like down at Halvorsen Park. We’re only a few days away from native daughter Sara Bareilles’ much-anticipated homecoming concert and the fences have started going up around the event space.
Have you got your tickets to get past those fences? More importantly, do you have too many tickets? ‘Cuz other people would like to see Sara! If you were one of the lucky few who secured entry in the initial crush and you’ve either decided you can’t go or you were more ambitious on the number of friends you have, remember that you can return your tix so they can be redistributed to those on the waiting list.
If you’re curious on the logistics of how this is all going to work, the City of Eureka lays it all out here. See you Sunday!
Going Down @ 2:38 p.m.
📣SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT RESIDENTS:📣 Coffee with a Cop is happening TOMORROW at the Garberville Farmer's Market! Stop by the town square between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. for free coffee and conversation with your local sheriff's deputies. pic.twitter.com/m0RW9p2URj
Mateel Community Center general manager Shiloh Croybaker sends in the following concert poster signed by the boys way back in 1989 when they played down in SoHum
“This hangs on our wall here at the Mateel,” Croybaker writes. “God I wish we could get them to do a community show here.”
Ball’s in your court, Peps. Click here to enlarge the image.
Image courtesy Mateel Community Center
Above: RHCP plays the Mateel Community Center on Sept. 12, 1989
Two more feathered friends who might soar above your heads | Yurok Tribe
And then there were six! On Tuesday morning, the Northern California Condor Restoration Program announced that they’d successfully released condors A4 and A5 into the wild. They join the the first cohort of four birds that was reintroduced into Yurok ancestral territory back in May.
Hooray! For the full play-by-play of this morning’s release, click on over the NCCRP Facebook page.
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