$100,000 of Damage Done by Fire in Unoccupied Building on Broadway
Press release from Humboldt Bay Fire:
On October 14th, 2019 at 2:09AM, Humboldt Bay Fire responded to a Commercial Structure Fire at the 3500 block of Broadway.
Crews began fire attack from outside the building, and the main body of the fire was quickly knocked down. Crews then conducted a search of the interior of the building and found no humans or animals inside.
The fire was overhauled and the majority of the damage was to the rear exterior of the building and a small studio apartment above the rear side of the building. Estimated fire loss is $100,000.
Fire crews remained on scene for 3 hours to completely extinguish the fire and secure the building.
The building was unoccupied at the time of the fire and there were signs of transient activity near the origin of the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Humboldt Bay Fire would like to thank EPD, HCSO, PG&E, City Ambulance and Arcata Fire District for their assistance.
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“there were signs of transient activity near the origin of the fire” seems to be the #1 cause of Humboldt fires, but everyone refuses to hold them accountable in any way.
Do random middle-of-the-night raids on every property that appears to have trespassers. Put them somewhere where they won’t have access to fire-starting materials.
Pay more taxes, then! Or here’s an idea: provide a safe shelter for those unfortunate enough to be homeless, foodless, cold and unable to access basic toilet, shower and washing needs.
“Pay more taxes”.
~why didn’t i think of that?
It would be a lot cheaper to lock them up than to let them keep burning buildings down, starting wildfires, stealing from vehicles, stealing from houses, stealing from businesses, abusing emergency room services, stealing bicycles, dumping trash everywhere, getting themselves killed on highways, vandalizing public bathrooms, vandalizing businesses, needing to be revived every time they overdose, shoplifting, stabbing people who are delusional enough to think they can help them, spending tax money on drugs, leaving taxpayer-funded syringes all over eureka, tying up our legal system just to get more probation, creating mounds of garbage that need loaders to remove, leaving biohazards on sidewalks, etc etc etc.
We’re already paying the taxes – it’s just going to cleaning up after them rather than to dealing with the problem. And spending the same money on actually dealing with the problem would have a chance of a long-term solution, that benefits them as well as society, while cleaning up after them just ensures nothing will ever change.
🕯🌳Were are you going to put them,feed them,cloth them,meet there mental and medical needs? More taxes? More,more,more, but nothing gets done. Just more money in someone’s pocket that’s not doing nothing to solve the problem. 🇺🇸🖖
My point was it would be LESS, not more.
If there weren’t so many vacant buildings around, they wouldn’t become occupied by drug addicts and squatters starting fires. A combination of a more active economy and liability for leaving building vacant might help.
I wonder if this is not both a result of the online shopping boom and an opportunity to create cheaper housing. The change in the economy is leaving lots of places derelict. Living on Broadway would not be ideal but, if there were incentives to create extremely basic, low cost housing where the regulations were not so burdensome about evicting tenants if the place was subsequently sold for commercial activity, it might offer an opportunity to help with the general deterioration in the area. A sort of “temporary housing zone” where it does not create a mess of lawsuits and regulation to change from commercial to housing or vice versa. Flip it or flop it.
Guest,
wonderfully said.
Building owners are the victims, not the problem. Blaming building owners for letting their buildings get burned is like blaming vehicle owners for letting their windows get smashed, or blaming women for getting raped because they showed their ankles, or whatever stupid victim-blaming crap you want to use as an analogy because I can’t think of a better one. Hopefully the building owner has insurance that will cover the damage done to their property.
Bushytails nails it!
“unfortunate” implies it has something to do with fortune, rather than their own decisions.
Like many things, a small percetage of truely unfortunate stories becomes a massively exaggerated scenario to cover all with excuses. A person with a serious mental illness, unable to control their behavior, might look similar to a person who simply finds normal responsibility burdensome and wouldn’t keep themselves sober and clean if given the facilities a silver platter.
Life choices are unfortunate. Or fortunate. Wonder how many many of those homeless went the route of drugs n alcohol over trying to better themselves before they were left out in the cold? Plenty of help wanted signs all over town! But hey, why work when someone else can do it for you. I love seeing 20 year old bums lined up at the free stuff van in garberville every week. Food, shelter, free needles, clothes. Guess what humboldt? that’s where YOUR tax dollars are going! 75% of all taxes in humboldt go to welfare programs! So yes, I’m doing my part to feed the homeless! Or as I call them, Social Parasites.
There is so much less room for error these days. Many people are struggling. Its the corporate take over of most industry and the death of the independent livelihood that’s a factor.
Independent livelihood and mom and pops tend to keep the power with the people, not the corporations.
Sinbad,
good comment, right on. Those homeless, people have disdain for could be most of us if the power were cut for a couple months.
“Pay more taxes”. Humph. Sounds like a city official looking for a raise or bonus.
You pay for the damages to the building and for all the firefighters, police officer’s and other called to that fire. It has been set on fire before, and I am certain it is a druggy or homeless person.
Spare me the sob story. If they don’t want to give up drugs/alcohol, take a shower and groom themselves, it is a chosen lifestyle. Why should taxpayers and enablers have to pony up?
Says a person with their own roof and a door that locks.
The definition of entitled
Entitled is expecting someone else to give you things, not working hard for them.
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adjective
believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
“kids who feel so entitled and think the world will revolve around them”
Yep, you used a dictionary, and it says the exact opposite of what you said.
Don’t worry bushytails, the land of opportunity will soon be replaced with the land of the enabled. Those who have less will spit on you and call you entitled and a racist capitalist pig, all the while asking you for a free handout. Welcome to California, where you bite the hand that feeds you.
I work my @$$ off just to rent a roof and a locking door and keep from dropping below the top tier of the poverty level. Not enough to get ahead or buy private insurance, but, too much to get free insurance or other social handouts. But hey, I got a roof and door. Woo hoo. I’m entitled . . . to what?
I’ve heard too many stories from people where their noses were all bent out of shape by employers demanding they show up for work when they don’t feel like it or that they feel were treated “unfairly” because they didn’t get what “everyone else” did or they simply would blame everyone else for their screw ups to believe every sad situation was a result of misfortune. The capacity of feeling abused by very ordinary things is huge for some people who coincidently also make up excuses about how it’s never their fault.
No one should ever lay guilt on others because there are people who behave stupidly and won’t take responsibility for it. Through sheer practice at offering self serving stories, they have the techinique down pat. If such people could be identified, then there might actually be the resources to better help the much smaller group of those physically or mentally incapacitated. The determined dysfunctional are always going to be a trouble.
“The determined dysfunctional . .”
~then, there’s those.
By Jove, i do believe we have a winning phrase for the politically correct… “the determined dysfunctional”. I like it :-O
Who are you talking to Dog?
3500 block of Broadway.
Is this the old Boiler Room building?
Yes, and the old Ricos bar.
I drove over there and Yes, the old Boiler Room building.
Take a homeless person home with you!
thank you! That occurs to me whenever the “advocates” for the homeless go on and on about how the taxpayer should pay for the care and support of those who will not work, who refuse housing (and yes, they do) who spend their days making life unpleasant for those of us who labor for our keep. If the homeless population is full of fantastic lost souls, take them into your own home. Please, have three, four, hanging out at your house. See why they are homeless….
🕯🌳Hey how about everyone go out and do something really great and take in one of those homeless people you see on the streets and put one of them up in your house.
Just think you’d be doing something for the city,you won’t be stressing out over that homeless thing anymore. You know making all those wild speculations about them,this way you get to see them first hand and up close and not play arm chair mental specialist. 🖖
~i have. Three rimes. And you know what? They get jumpy and can’t wait to get back to Eureka. Gotta be culture shock going from city hustle-n-bustle, to stone silence in the middle of a forest, under a canopy. They can’t handle it.
Thanks.
What a good plan! They can shit in our microwaves too!
That’s in an empty building with no power. Imagine what would have happened if the county power was off and there was no electricity to pump the water to put the fire out.
The transients at work raising your taxes in order to clean up their messes, but do the politicians care. Nope, they are afraid to take a tough political stance for fear of losing the bleeding heart vote. So they vote more taxes to care for them. And the problem is not solved.
🕯🌳Society will have to care for them one way or another or one party or the other. 🇺🇸
Oakland (sanctioned city) bought hundreds of “junior barns” for the homeless and put them on government property. They burned them all within a year to keep warm. You can lead a horse to water……
if new direction was in that abandoned building there would have been no fire from a possible homeless person. new directions took over the abandoned Jacobs school and nullified all negative activities. New directions has been able to provide new type of security while providing housing for our homeless trainees