Multiple Residents Have Lost Access to Their Homes After Large Truck Broke Through Bridge on Fish Creek Near Miranda

A road collapsed after a large truck hauling gravel broke through a small bridge.

A road collapsed after a large truck hauling gravel broke through a small bridge. [Photo provided by a reader]


At approximately 3 p.m., a large truck hauling gravel broke through a bridge on Fish Creek Road north of Phillipsville and south of Miranda. This has left multiple residents without a way to enter or leave their homes.

About one gallon of hydraulic fluid escaped and Humboldt County Environmental Health is determining how to deal with the situation. The area is above a State Park.

We’ll update as we have more information.

 

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Aunt Jackie
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Aunt Jackie
6 years ago

Oh oh. That road was bad enough before this happened.

Honeydew Bridge C.H.U.M.P.
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Honeydew Bridge C.H.U.M.P.
6 years ago

Just get a couple solid gold growdozers with gold rope and pull it out, what’s the big deal?

Shredder
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Shredder
6 years ago

Gold rope, that’s the problem.

Grandma
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Grandma
6 years ago

Gold is a soft metal

Georganne Ross
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Georganne Ross
6 years ago

Om mani padme hum 💜🌈

Squaw fish
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Squaw fish
6 years ago
Reply to  Georganne Ross

? U speak American?

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago
Reply to  Georganne Ross

….padme “hum”? Lol!

GLBaird
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GLBaird
6 years ago

One gallon does not qualify for a Environmental spill Another county department looking for money

Pat
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Pat
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

This photo of you looks a whole lot better than the last one. did you lose weight ? you have a radiant smile on your face like you just saw Jesus.

Seamus
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Seamus
6 years ago
Reply to  GLBaird

Think back to Deep Water Horizon, over 210,000,000 gallons.

Linda
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Linda
6 years ago

That must have been scary!

Sande
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Sande
6 years ago

Is this the road to gma’s place Kym?

Nate eastham
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Nate eastham
6 years ago

Was just up there with my brother telling him that bridge was gonna go soon. Has just deteriorated over the years.

Raving Ritchie
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Raving Ritchie
6 years ago

I use to live up there when I was a kid. There use to be another way in from Dyerville. Pretty sure that got gated decades ago, though.

Guest#2
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Guest#2
6 years ago

Oh my god, hydraulic fluid!!! Worse then that has been polluting these streams over the years.

Maija
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Maija
6 years ago

What trucking outfit was it?

better call someone else
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better call someone else
6 years ago
Reply to  Maija

looks like Kai Ostrow’s

Tony Tiger
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Tony Tiger
6 years ago

Where exactly is fish creek

jojo
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jojo
6 years ago
Reply to  Tony Tiger

tributary to south fork of the eel river near philipsville.

CnD
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CnD
6 years ago

Was there a posted weight limit for that bridge?

JP
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JP
6 years ago
Reply to  CnD

Posted lol

Toad Eye
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Toad Eye
6 years ago

I can bet there’s far worse things in that water then hydraulic fluid.

Kris
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6 years ago

Who tarps a load of gravel? Just sayin’

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Kris

Tarping is required by State law if the gravel is mounded higher than the rim of the bed. But it’s just a plain civil thing to do anyway.

jj
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jj
6 years ago
Reply to  Kris

my windshield appreciates it.

Muddy Black Dodge
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Muddy Black Dodge
6 years ago
Reply to  Kris

My windshield and my radiator appreciate a covered load. Just saying something dumb you mean.

Hmmmmm!
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Hmmmmm!
6 years ago

That’s sort of a sketchy-looking bridge. Isn’t it?

I can’t even tell it IS a bridge.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago
Reply to  Hmmmmm!

So cal ^^^

Hmmmmm!
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Hmmmmm!
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

SoHum!

The legend
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The legend
6 years ago

hydraulic fluid is not toxic like motor oil…

Antichrist
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Antichrist
6 years ago
Reply to  The legend

yes it is, it is more so infact. used motor oil now adays is pretty bad, but what is super bad isbio diesel blended fuel, as the bugs that live in it can enter the body and feed off of you, through a small cut or even eyes .

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  Antichrist

no bugs live in Bio Diesel due to the pH. its is why you have to convert your fuel lines to run it. its like a 13.5 to 14.

Bill
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Bill
6 years ago

Guest #2 has it correct….far worse than this in the creeks all over this County. The web, press, and news will freak out about this event but where is all the outcry from the illegal herbicides, rodenticides, and insecticides as well as fertilizers running off into our watersheds, tributaries, streams, and rivers!!! Leading to fish kills, algae blooms, endangered species death (fisher, marten, owls), lets not forget illegal taking of water. A more pathetic bunch of hypocrites I have never seen. Southern Humboldt the worst, show up in force to demonstrate and shut down industry but hell no we will not demonstrate to shut down the grow scene!

Yes, the spill needs to be cleaned up and it will, but come on people open your fricking eyes to what these growers are doing in your community, watersheds….. to your water.

CB buddie
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CB buddie
6 years ago
Reply to  Bill

VERY WELL said Bill. Thank You.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  Bill

you left out 1,000s of gallons of herbicides sprayed legally to curb the growth of hardwoods after logging the redwoods. this is one of those watersheds.

HastyGirl
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HastyGirl
6 years ago
Reply to  Bill

Thank you Bill you have probably said what hundreds of people have been wanting to say for a long time I appreciate your comment I’m sure as well as many others!

humkid
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humkid
6 years ago

Maybe they are trying to improve the environment .maybe they are doing water quality work,Maybe they are required to rock their road.Thousands of dirt roads in Humboldt, many need work if not most.Culverts get old and rot.County roads have many undersized culverts and old ones that need replace.

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago

“At approximately 3 p.m., a large truck hauling gravel broke through a bridge on Fish Creek Road north of Phillipsville and south of Miranda.”

Sure doesn’t look like “gravel”, looks like tomater dirt, dumping out and over the passenger rear corner and tailgate. Who’s making the delivery?

Richard
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Richard
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Its crushed rock for a driveway…..

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago
Reply to  Richard

OK Dick, (wink wink) click on the pic and click again. Only in Southern Humboldt do you have dirt/soil color “crushed rock for a driveway”. Got another one?

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

OK, now that we can see a different pic, that maybe, still looks like more dirt than gravel. Who was making the delivery and is that a private or county road?

SHAKA
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SHAKA
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Nosy much….

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago
Reply to  SHAKA

I had no idea this was a closed blog post, my bad. If you don’t want comments, don’t make it public!

Chairokee
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Chairokee
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

You ever seen WET road base when loaded out of a pile of base? didnt think so,quit trying to stir the rock!

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

I have seen more crushed rock and road base, wet, dry and as it was coming directly out of the river bar, you have no clue. How come no one wants to answer my question? Who owns the truck? Who will clean up the sediment in Fish Creek?

Devoice
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Devoice
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Ed why do you grow tomaters in such rocky soil?

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

that material is clearly road base.

Chairokee
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Chairokee
6 years ago
Reply to  local observer

Its so clear to us but ED VOICE, thinks we have NO CLUE, ed if you hade a clue, or ever dealt with rock like i have for years you wouldn’t have made the first stupid soil comment, dont worry about the truck, unless your concearned the driver is ok, and obviously you have time in the middle of the day,so being so worried, you can clean up the creek!!

Timothy McVeigh's ghost
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Timothy McVeigh's ghost
6 years ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Looks like typical road base.

Veteran's Friend
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Veteran's Friend
6 years ago

Does no one remember when the lumber companies sprayed ACRES of land with 2-4D mixed with diesel….?

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago

10s of thousands of Acres and they still do it legally. you can’t miss them on Google Earth. if sprayed in the past ten years, they are the big brown areas you find surrounded by green.

CB buddie
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CB buddie
6 years ago

The Timber companies sprayed herbicides, there is no doubt on that, mixed with diesel is a bunch of BS. And even if it were true, how does that make it OK for all the crap the grows dump into the watershed now. Thinking like that would make it still legal to make the certain people ride in the back of the bus, Simply because they used to do it that way.

local observer
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local observer
6 years ago
Reply to  CB buddie

it is mixed with diesel so it sticks. otherwise the application is not as effective. the damage the timber industry has done to our local watersheds is not even on the same scale as these grows. when weed leaves and it will eventually, these clearing will infill in a very short time and its not like timber companies didn’t dump oil on the ground from changing oil in the woods of 1,000s of rigs and heavy equipment, probably much more than that.

Po ick ur battles
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Po ick ur battles
6 years ago

I agree. The cumlative effect of logging up and down the Pacific Northwest coast dwarfs that of pot growing. And then some. Shit, the central valley has done more harm too. Oh, and Mercer Frazer wants to open an extraction plant. So silly.

Guest
Guest
Guest
6 years ago

Never totally lost the water in the creek from logging. Had it happen 2 times in October due to pot grows. Pot grows are 2 months legal and substantial clear cut logging has taken place.

Po ick ur battles
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Po ick ur battles
6 years ago
Reply to  Guest

R u kidding? Logging completely rarranged the landscape. Creeks we know today we’re half formed by logging roads clogging the older ones… Oh and there’s been a drought you didn’t notice.