Arcata Fire is sending an engine to the B Street incident. Samoa and Loleta Fire are being dispatched for move up and cover assignments in Eureka. All Humboldt Bay Fire resources are assigned to the B Street incident. Arcata Fire is now dispatching their McKinleyville engine to a separate medical aid in the Samoa Area

Battalion 8202 on scene assuming “B Street IC” with a two story wood frame residence with heavy fire from the alpha side 2nd floor. This will be an offensive fire with primary objective of holding fire to the second floor, requesting a second alarm

Eureka Structure Fire: Multiple reports of a fully involved structure in the 1300 block of B St and a bystander attempting to extinguish with a garden hose; Humboldt Bay Fire responding

Per Arcata Chief 8202, this is a burn pile only. One engine is continuing, the balance has been canceled

Arcata Structure Fire: Highway 101 at Giuntoli for a report of a barn on fire in the field; For Arcata Fire all call, Blue Lake Fire, Westhaven Fire with Humboldt Bay Fire on order; First unit at scene will be the “Barn IC”; Arcata Fire units responding are reporting a header of dark black smoke visible from their location

Arcata a small debris fire, 1100 block Samoa Blvd near the train tracks, APD is at scene; for Engine 8215

McKinleyville assist the ambulance crew, 2300 block Central Ave, a female in her 60s has fallen through her porch, respond Code 2 [no siren]; E8217 at scene

Update on conditions for Dinsmore traffic collision: One patient confirmed 11-44 (deceased), 2 with major injuries, Eastbound lanes of HW 36 are blocked; STAR ambulance is arriving at scene, City Ambulance was responding from Fortuna at the time of the original dispatch; REACH 5 has taken off from Redding with ETA of 4:51 PM to Dinsmore

Dinsmore Traffic Collision: Report of a vehicle vs. motorcycle on Highway 36 near the Humboldt Trinity county line, possibly with multiple patients injured. Per CHP dispatch, a caller reports that one patient may be deceased. Multiple agencies are responding and helicopters are on order. Helicopter REACH 5 out of Redding has accepted the mission with ETA of 16:51.

Here’s a fun little calculator released by the Economic Policy Institute. Plug in your area and your household size and it’ll give you its estimate of how much you need to be making to have “a modest yet adequate standard of living.”

For a four-person family in Humboldt County — two adults, two kids — the calculator comes up with the magic number of $86,520. Does that sound right to you? Sounds plausible to us, though the way it arrives at that number seems a little suspect. They’re budgeting $1,587 a month for health care? Is anyone without chronic health conditions spending that much?

Anyway, play around with it. You can compare-and-contrast Humboldt County with other areas of the country, if that’s your thing.

Family Budget Calculator

EPI’s Family Budget Calculator measures the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living. The budgets estimate community-specific costs for 10 family types (one or two adults with zero to four children) in all counties and metro areas in the United States. Compared with the federal poverty…

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According to CHP, several citizens reporting that a single occupant, elderly male, not injured and is out of the car and at the roadway. CHP not at scene yet and the assigned fire and medical units have not been canceled

Orick area, Hwy 101 1/2 mile north of Bald Hills Rd, veh in ditch and poss CPR in progress, 3rd-hand call from CHP. For CalFire E1274, Orick Fire and Arcata Ambulance

All is well on C Street. Firefighters found a pot of food burning on the stove.

The first units on scene near the intersection of C and Hawthorn are looking at a multifamily residence — the supposed site of the smoke — and nothing is visible at the moment. They’re setting up hoses in case.

Humboldt Bay Fire sending lots of units to the 2000 block of C Street in Eureka. An alarm has been going off, and a caller-in smells smoke.

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Welcome to the first installment of ADVENTURES in NEXTDOOR, where we take a peek at what’s going on over at Humboldt County’s favorite neighborhood-based social networking app.

Roosters! If you’re not a rooster-fancier, they sure can be loud and annoying! Especially when someone has ‘em right in the middle of town! But say you’ve gotten sick of your rooster. What to do with it?

One user has a helpful suggestion: Take it to the dump!

Another user reached out to check if this was, in fact, true — if Recology was operating a disposed-rooster sanctuary at their Fortuna location. That person discovered that, alas, some things are too good to be true. They posted their text message exchange with Recology:

That should settle it. Don’t drop your rooster off at the dump, please.

Remember “movies”? Remember going to a big auditorium in your town to see a new “movie”?

Want to relive that experience on the cheap?

Well, good news: Coming Attractions Theatres sends word that they will be participating in National Cinema Day this Saturday. That means that all movies at the Broadway and Mill Creek Cinemas will be only $3, all day long. And addition to that: Exclusive previews and promotions galore are promised.

Get hype! Here’s the trailer for National Cinema Day.

Re Boyd Road call, ARF Engine 8215 at scene, has an small escaped transients’ fire, they can handle, cancel all other companies

Units acknowledging are Arcata Engines 8215 and 8217 and Chief 8201; Blue Lake and Fieldbrook acknowledged; Westhaven VFD now also added to the dispatch, HumBayFire responding

Arcata poss vegetation fire, 4800 block Boyd Road, for Arcata Fire all-call, Blue Lake, Fieldbrook and HumBayFire; in a homeless encampment, near a supply company and a mobile home park

McKinleyville commercial smoke alarm activated, 2300 block Central Ave [same location as just about 24 hours ago], Engine 8217 enroute [same unit as just about 24 hours ago]… and at scene, nothing showing, out investigating

Ambulance at scene w/patient, Prevention 1222 reports all units responding can cancel, 1222 is also clear

…with chest PAINS

CalFire officer reports it’s a 36-yr-old male with chest mains for last 30 minutes, continue the entire response

Loleta area, man reported down near the fog line, s/bound 101 north of Hookton Rd, for Loleta Fire and City Ambulance, call came in from CHP; CalFire unit 1222 in the area will check & advise

Engine 8215 clear/returning from the Shirley incident

Re Shirley TC, Engine 8215 requesting Arcata Police, also they have one vehicle still in the roadway that needs to be towed

Todd, I generally have no radio reception at all beyond the immediate coastal area of northern Humboldt. Thanks and good work with your aircraft and interior county traffic reporting.

Arcata Engine 8215 responding to Shirley Blvd, the incident will be “Shirley IC”