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Having Trouble Contacting a Loved One From the Redding Area? Follow These Missing Person Procedures
Redding Police Department:*** Carr Fire Missing Person Procedures ***If you are unable to get a hold of a loved one, please do the following:1) Check the Red Cross Safe & Well website…
Fatal Carr Fire Explodes to 80,900 Acres Overnight; New Mandatory Evacuations
The Carr Fire as mapped yesterday.The Carr Fire has once again nearly doubled in size, growing to 80,906 acres overnight."Firefighters worked aggressively through the evening to build containment lines…
Redding Firefighter Who Died Battling Carr Fire Named
Redding Firefighters Local 1934:With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Fire Inspector Jeremy Stoke. Jeremy died while battling the Carr Fire. We ask for your thoughts and prayers for his…
(VIDEO) Vegetation Fire on Greenwood Heights
…He tells us that work crews with chainsaws are currently on scene containing the blaze. A helicopter has made multiple water drops. We will update when we know more. # # #UPDATE: From Humboldt…
(VIDEO) Drone Captures Images of Redding Neighborhoods Destroyed by Carr Fire
CBS News has released aerial drone-captured footage of several Redding neighborhoods decimated by the Carr Fire.PREVIOUSLY: How You Can Help Victims of Shasta County’s Carr Fire FRIDAY MORNING CARR…
How You Can Help Victims of Shasta County’s Carr Fire
…As we saw in the aftermath of the Tubbs Fire, donations of food and clothing can provide added logistical challenges since volunteers and relief organizations must find places to store them.So…
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Warns You: Beware of ‘Car Prowl’ aka Theft from Vehicles
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has received an increase in reports of vehicle burglaries and vandalisms on beaches along the Samoa peninsula…
Drug Enforcement: One Week, 12 Search Warrants, Almost 50k Marijuana Plants Destroyed
…The parcel did not possess nor was in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.During the service of the warrant, deputies located and eradicated…
Huffman Introduces ‘Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act’ To Restore and Protect Local Land
…The bill also calls for developing a Regional Trails plan and studying the feasibility of establishing The Bigfoot National Recreation Trail, which would highlight the world-renowned botanical and biological diversity found…
Drug Task Force Nabs Suspected Drug Dealer, Finds Six Pounds of Suspected Heroin in False Compartment of Car
Photos courtesy Humboldt County Drug Task Force.Press release from the Humboldt County Drug Task Force: AguiarOn July 26, 2018, Special Agents with the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, with the assistance…
MISSING: Police Seeking Man Who Told Family He’d Been Working at Trinidad-Area Cannabis Farm
…The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office needs the public’s help to locate a Kentucky man reported missing from the Trinidad area.Basil Tolson, 32, of Hazel Green, Kentucky, was reported missing…
FRIDAY MORNING CARR FIRE UPDATE: Two People Dead, Thousands Evacuated as Wildfire Burns West Redding
A look at one Redding neighborhood destroyed in the #CarrFire pic.twitter.com/LBtpE6lNxF— Brian Hickey (@kcraBrianHickey) July 27, 2018 Thousands of Shasta County residents awoke somewhere other than their homes Friday…
(VIDEO) Calfire: Private-Hire Dozer Operator Killed By Carr Fire; Additional Firefighters, Civilians Injured
The Calfire press conference that was posted on Facebook moments ago.A privately-hired dozer operator has died while battling the Carr fire, Calfire Unified Incident Commander Chief Brett Gouvea said moments…
(UPDATING) Emergency Evacuations Ordered as Carr Fire Jumps Sacramento River; Fire is Burning ‘Very Rapidly Toward West Redding’
…KRCR staff have evacuated the newsroom.) # # # West Redding residents have been ordered to flee their homes tonight, after the Carr fire jumped the Sacramento River and hour ago. Update: All Emergency personnel…
(VIDEO) Protestors Lock Themselves to Gate to Prevent HRC Logging of Mattole Forest
Photos and video by Andrew GoffThe Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC) has recently been cracking down on protesters camping at Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole forest. Today two protesters locked themselves to a…
EPD Wants People to Register Their Security Cameras to Help Officers Solve Crime
Photo by Mike Mozart.EPD press release:The Eureka Police Department is now utilizing the Security Camera Registration module within Citizen RIMS, the online tool that integrates with our computer aided dispatch…
The DMV Was Planning to Close Its Eureka Office for Nearly Four Months But Evidently Got Talked Out of It
As soon as the notices went up online yesterday, people started freaking out. The California Department of Motor Vehicles had announced on its website that their always-busy Eureka office was scheduled…
(VIDEOS) Redding Residents Document Their Carr Fire Experiences on Snapchat
As the Carr fire spreads through the hills West of Redding, people are taking to their phones to publicly document their unique fire experiences on Snapchat.From fire footage, to traffic, to…
(VIDEO) Joe Bonino Launches Campaign Challenging Kim Bergel for Eureka’s Fifth Ward City Council Seat
Joe Bonino became the latest candidate to enter what's becoming a crowded field of political contenders in the City of Eureka this election season as he launched his campaign this afternoon…
Governor Brown Declares State of Emergency for Shasta County Amid 20,000-Acre Carr Fire
The Carr Fire crosses the north side of State Route 299 to the south side. Photo taken this afternoon by Caltrans.Governor Jerry Brown has declared a State of Emergency for Shasta…
Don’t Let These Helicopters Harsh Your Vibe, Man; They’re Just PG&E’s New Heavy-Lift Choppers for Work in Remote Areas
…The primary purpose of the new helicopters is to help PG&E do day-to-day work in remote and hard to reach places across its 70,000-square mile service area…
‘Unhealthy’ Air-Quality Conditions Possible Along Northern Interiors of Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity Counties This Evening as Fires Rage in California, Oregon
Thermal mapping of the Carr fire between yesterday (most of the orange) and last night (most of the red). | Images from Nasa, Graphic created by the OutpostNorth Coast Unified Air Quality Management…
Sheriff’s Office Asks for Help Finding ‘Possibly Disoriented’ Man Last Seen on Logging Road South of Eureka
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office needs the community’s help to locate a missing man last seen in the Elk River area. On July…
(PHOTOS) One Arrested After Eureka Office Building ‘Ransacked and Vandalized’
Photos by Shane Mizer unless otherwise noted.A two-story office building on the corner of Sixth and G streets in Eureka was broken into and badly vandalized early this morning. Officers…
Sector Humboldt Bay Patrol Boat Finds Ghost Ship Belonging to Couple Rescued From Rough Seas Off Washington Coast More Than a Month Ago
Sector Humboldt Bay tows in the ghost ship that had last been 180 miles off the Washington coast. | Photos/video by USCG U.S. Coast Guard press release:The Coast Guard located…
Marine From Hoopa Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter After Stabbing Fellow Private at Camp Pendleton
…Originally charged with murder, Begay pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and testified that the stabbing was accidental, the result of horseplay while sitting in formation behind Barclay-Weberpal at the infantry school…
Your Daily Unpermitted Humboldt Marijuana Grow Raid Update: Four SoHum Parcels Searched; 22,427 Plants Eradicated
…The parcels did not possess nor were in the process of actively obtaining a commercial cannabis permit with the County of Humboldt.During the service of the warrants, deputies eradicated approximately 22…
REDDING IN DANGER: Carr Fire Explodes Overnight; Evacuations; Homes, Boats Destroyed; Road Closures
…People could be seen streaming into Redding from the west early Thursday. From the Record Searchlight: A line of cars, pickups and campers — some pulling boats — headed toward Redding in the early…
OBITUARY: Jim Davis, 1934-2018
…In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to the Jim and Shirley Davis scholarship fund at College of the Redwoods and/or the ALS Association. The family would like to thank the…
OBITUARY: Loretta Catherine Speziale, 1937-2018
…In lieu of flowers, Loretta’s family requests donations be made to Hospice of Humboldt or the Employee Appreciation Fund at Timber Ridge in McKinleyville.###The obituary above was submitted on behalf…