The Coast Guard helicopter is back airborne from the air station in McKinleyville and is returning to the Willow Creek incident for what is proving to be an extremely challenging rescue. I believe units have been on scene since well before 6 pm
todd / 10:08 p.m.
Coast Guard Helicopter 6547 is off the Willow Creek incident and returning to the airport for fuel. It is unclear if they were successful in effecting a rescue, but it sounds like they are planning to return to the scene after refueling. (I have limited radio reception from this incident. Those with scanners in the more immediate area may be able to receive tactics and air-to-ground on CALCORD)
todd / 9:40 p.m.
Westbound HW 299 is blocked at mile marker 35, a few miles west of Willow Creek, while the Coast Guard aircraft works
todd / 8:54 p.m.
Coast Guard Helicopter 6547 is inbound for the hoist rescue. Hoopa Ambulance and Willow Creek Fire are staged on HW 299 with HCSO units. Air to ground communications will be on CALCORD (156.075 MHz)
todd / 8:39 p.m.
Willow Creek Cliff Rescue: HCSO has been on scene on Highway 299 in the area of mile marker 32-34 with a hiker or climber stuck partway up a rocky hillside. A Coast Guard helicopter was requested for a night hoist rescue and a helicopter is now inbound from the Arcata airport. Willow Creek Fire and Hoopa Ambulance were just ordered code 2 to stage.
SHELTER COVE RESIDENTS: Frontier Communications has notified us of a landline outage impacting 800+ residents. Residents may not be able to contact 911 from their landline. Cell phone and Wifi service are not impacted. We have not been provided an estimated time of restoration.
McKinleyville unknown medical problem, alarm company states the person may be in the garage, 1300 block of Chaparrel Dr, Engine 8217 and Arcata Amb responding
Engine 8215 unable to locate a fire, returning to quarters
unofficial / 10:08 p.m.
Arcata, report of transient campfire s/bound Hwy 101 near exit 714B [Sunset Ave], for Engine 8215
Going Down @ 2:01 p.m.
The situation at Fortuna High School seems to have settled somewhat. The school is now informing parents to come pick up their kids.
From FUHS:
We are preparing to release students. Once your students building is cleared by law enforcement they will be released to go. Parents can come pick students on 12th but please remain in your cars. Busses will also be dropping students off on the regular route.
Going Down @ 1:27 p.m.
Fortuna police are still at Fortuna High School, clearing it building by building, as per scanner traffic. They just got done with the auto shop and are moving on to other classrooms.
Going Down @ 1:07 p.m.
North Coast News is providing live video from Fortuna High School, which has been on lockdown for a little more than an hour now.
Going Down @ 12:38 p.m.
Fortuna High is currently on lockdown after someone sent a message saying they were going to “light up the school” at 12:10 p.m.
Students are being evacuated and police are currently inspecting the contents of their backpacks, according to scanner traffic.
If you’re unfamiliar with the work Chase does here in Humboldt, for over 15 years they’ve been providing earnest jobs for community members with developmental disabilities. The company used the stolen trailer in question to trek around the county picking up paper documents in need of shredding. According the company’s co-founder Shannon Chase, the trailer is vital to the operation.
“This trailer is what they use in order to make money,” Chase writes as part of a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for a new trailer. “Without it, numerous individuals will now be without work until we can raise the funds to replace it. Due to the confidentiality of the material being picked up it, it absolutely has to be transported in a covered, locked trailer, not just in the back of a truck or other open trailer. Our program is one of the only ones on the north coast that has always paid the individuals minimum wage or better for working. We don’t believe in sub minimum wage just because they have a disability. So they will be losing out on a substantial paycheck.”
If you feel so moved, you can donate to Chase Inc.’s GoFundMe here.
#Update#Bayside HCSO SWAT is responding to a barricaded subject situation on Plunkett Road. Residents in the vicinity of Plunkett are asked to stay inside while law enforcement works. Jacoby Creek Road remains open, but please yield to emergency traffic.
A tweet from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office warns residents of Bayside to stay in their homes while law enforcement operate in the area. Here is what we know.
We will update when we hear more.
todd / 3:14 p.m.
Trinidad Traffic Collision w/ Extrication: Cal Fire Engine 1274 is on scene on Highway 101 in the area of mile marker 100 near the Main St. offramp reporting 4 vehicles involved, multiple patients with one confirmed 11-44 (deceased). Engine 1274 is assuming “Baker IC”, initiating triage and requesting a total of three code 3 ambulances. Resources from Arcata, Westhaven and Fieldbrook Fire Departments are also now on scene. Northbound 101 is blocked.
unofficial / 2:46 p.m.
E8215 clear from the call [apparently found nothing]
unofficial / 2:34 p.m.
Engine 8215 in the area looking
unofficial / 2:32 p.m.
Arcata poss debris fire, unknown location but “in the marsh west of I Street toward Samoa” per single caller, for Arcata E8215
unofficial / 2:08 p.m.
Engine 8215 is staged on Jacoby Creek, HCSO not at scene yet, requesting their ETA… per Sheriff’s dispatch they were out of position and now coming thru Eureka… E8215 has gone in ahead and they’re clear from the call [no explanation broadcast over the air]
unofficial / 1:50 p.m.
BAYSIDE medical aid call w/staging required, 4500 block Jacoby Creek, female w/unk-cause facial injuries, HCSO responding; for Arc Ambulance and Arc Engine 8215 acknowledging life-safety hazard
Going Down @ 11:54 a.m.
Arguably the biggest cultural event to happen in Eureka in memory will occur in less than a month on Oct. 16 when native daughter Sara Bareilles returns to her hometown for a show at Halvorsen Park. The City of Eureka is thinking that at least some of the thousands who gather that day may get hungry, so they’re putting out the call for local food truck operators to rally for the cause.
If you believe you’ve got what it takes to help fill the mouths of Sara’s ravenous fans, apply here.
If you were lucky enough to snag one of the free tickets to Sara Bareilles’ homecoming concert this morning, we offer you congratulations. Those things went fast! But if you need to somehow be more excited for the event, click the video above to let Bareilles herself share her hopes for the event.
“I’m coming home to celebrate where I came from and to say thank you and ‘I love you’ to the incredible community of Humboldt County,” Bareilles says in the clip before being photobombed by a fuzzy pooch. Could you love her more?!
If you somehow found yourself on this page before reading the City of Eureka’s announcement this morning, catch up here.
Arcata Fight: (Late Entry) Arcata PD, University Police, (* and possibly HCSO), Arcata Fire and Arcata Ambulance are at scene on the north side of the Arcata plaza for what was reported as a fight with an unresponsive male with numerous injuries. A large crown was reported in the area. Arcata Fire arrived and advised that there were as many as 3 patients injured. Unknown further
TODAY IN LoCO: Remember the Suddenlink Slasher? He, she or they was/were the renegade criminal(s) who seemed to nurse a beef against the telecommunications industry — or perhaps against one particular cable Internet provider — to such an insane extent that cables were sliced and diced in the dead of night all over the county.
The Slasher’s reign of terror had pretty much come to a close by Sept. 16, 2014 — exactly eight years ago today — but this is the day that former California Governor Jerry Brown signed former state Senator Wes Chesbro’s anti-Slasher legislation, and it so today is the day it became the law of the land.
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