[UPDATE 5:34 p.m.: Photos] Fire in the Salmon Creek Area West of Miranda
Smoke rising from the Salmon Creek Fire. [Photo from a local resident]
According to Jeremy Ward, Cal Fire HUU Battalion Chief, the fire is about a 1/4 acre in size already but moving at a slow rate of spread.
There are engines already on scene but no air support at this early hour.
UPDATE 8:52 a.m.: Jeremy Ward from Cal Fire tells us that forward progress has been stopped. He is headed to the area to investigate the cause of the fire.
UPDATE 12:56 p.m.: The fire is in the mop up stage.
UPDATE 5:34 p.m.: [Photo credit to Julian King from the Salmon Creek Volunteer Fire Department]
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And mostly we don’t get to see the firefighters after their hot, hard work for hours to mop up the mess but this one is this reporter’s son and I caught a photo of him when he stopped by to reassure the family that the mop up was nearly complete.
Quinn Church after fighting the Gate Fire. [Photo by Kym Kemp]
SALMON CREEK FIRE
PO Box 662
Miranda, CA 95553
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Is this more of the Arsonist’s work?
Not a likely location, those fires were all quite close to 101.
and they were all determined to be caused by a single vehicle.
except for 2 suspicious ones near Miranda. And the unknown cause one on Bell Springs. etc.
you said in your own words that you would believe the investigators conclusion and you have faith in her. whats the deal? they were found to be all one vehicle, all 8. these roadside fires that are all in one directions are always found to be a vehicle. its as if you think every fire is arson. bell springs was likely some idiot that pulled over onto the grass to let a growdozer pass. logic solves most of these fires. the ice plant in Eureka that burned up in a flash was likely arson, why, because the asbestos removal cost was estimated around 3 million. the gym behind the movie theater in McK was likely arson, why, because the pool foundation failed inspection requiring a complete rebuild. once again, logic. arson always has a motive.
Most are.
There hasn’t been any lightning locally for almost a month; all these many fires in SoHum and NoMen are HUMAN CAUSED.
An idiot with an untended generator or dragging chain is as bad as an arsonist.
People, please get your shit together!
With the number of misfits living in the hills, dont hold your breath
Hey now dont give us misfits a bad name. I often call southern hum the island of misfit toys (older folks will get the xmas special reference). As a misfit toy so to speak, I loved th “fit” I felt when I got to so hum.
Misfits and true outlaws are usually not idiots. Quirky yes but not dumb.
As societal misfit/true outlaw types go, folks usually want to draw the least attention possible to themselves. Which means not driving like a dumbass or causing fires or the like.
Just sayin
Mabey u should hold yours.but ya must agree get it together be aware…. conscious.alert
any updates on this fire ?
Thanks to the responders & the neighbor who phoned this in! What if he/she hadn’t spotted it so early in the morning?
hi i hope it is out. it has been crazey this year it is like trouble has been following us all year i want to take this time to thank all the different responders for all their service on all the fires and a special thanks for them for their work on the fire near our house on maple hills road junction and the glass blowing shop the fire in bell springs and of course the mountain fire at island mountain i can not wait for winter thanks fire people
So Grateful and Happy all of our neighbors and Salmon Creek family are safe!!! So proud of the SCVFD!!!
LOVE, Jack & Debra
It’s just a matter of time before a wind driven fire blows through so-hum too.
That whole area needs periodic and healthy controlled burning to open up the understory, but it’s hard to pull off with such a densely populated area with hundreds upon hundreds of smaller parcels owners.
As we’ve seen, not even fuels reduction and controlled burns can stop these new mega-fires.
It’s a start though, and surely helps reduce the danger of a normal fire.
Anybody with wood siding, firewood stacks, wood decks or anything combustible near their valuables assets is tempting fate.
Start taking the trees out around your house, no bird habitat briars allowed, side your structures with metal or cement siding.
Build subterranean dwellings.
Bury your water lines if possible.
In 5 to 10 years, every watershed will have been smoked out at this rate.
Fires good, but this is too much too fast.
Literally 90 percent of the conifers on the large creek I live on(as big as the Mattole) are like standing charcoal statues.
nothing left.
hardwood stump sprouts are chest high already, and strangely Yerba Santa growing vigorously in what used to be Doug fir/madrone forest.
Maybe Yerba Santa can offer the cure..
Thank you Fire fighters and neighbors!
Please consider donating to your local fire department. Below are SoHum plus some western Trinity County and some northern Mendocino. (I swear I had some northern Humboldt, too but I’m not seeing them.)
And again thank you to the woman who did the vast amount of work compiling this.
ALDERPOINT FIRE
POB 164
ALDERPOINT, 95511
BRICELAND FIRE
POB 1249
REDWAY, 95560.
BRIDGEVILLE FIRE
P.O. Box 4
Bridgeville, CA 95526
CARLOTTA FIRE
PO Box 33
Carlotta, CA 95528
FORTUNA FIRE
320 S. Fortuna Blvd.
Fortuna, CA 95540
FRUITLAND RIDGE FIRE
POB 87
Myers Flat 95554
GARBERVILLE FIRE
PO Box 288
Garberville, CA 95542
HAWKINS BAR VFD
PO Box 485
Salyer, CA 95563
HONEYDEW FIRE
P.O. Box 74
Honeydew, CA, 95545
KETTENPOM ZENIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
Po Box 100
Zenia, CA 95595
MIRANDA FIRE
POB 160
Miranda, Ca 95560
MYERS FLAT FIRE
PO Box 131
Myers Flat, CA 95554
ORLEANS FIRE
Po Box 312
Orleans, CA 95556
Or you can donate via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/orleansvolunteers
PALO VERDE FIRE
P O Box 1381,
Redway, Ca 95560
PETROLIA FIRE
(Donate online)
98 Sherman Street.
P.O. Box 169
Petrolia, CA
95558-0169
PIERCY FIRE (I know it is Mendocino County but Piercy is part of Humboldt in my mind)
80401 Highway 271/ PO Box 206
Piercy, CA, 95587
PHILLIPSVILLE FIRE
PO Box 39
Phillipsville, CA 95559
POST MOUNTAIN FIRE
PO Box 1026
Hayfork, CA 96041
REDWAY FIRE
PO Box 695
REDWAY, CA 95560
RIO DELL FIRE
50 West Center St.
Rio Dell, CA 95562
SALMON CREEK FIRE
PO Box 662
Miranda, CA 95553
SHELTER COVE FIRE
9126 Shelter Cove Road
Whitethorn, CA 95589
SPROWEL CREEK FIRE
PO Box 2122
Redway, CA 95560
SOUTHERN TRINITY VFD, (a bi-county organization serving both eastern Humboldt and Southern Trinity)
P.O. Box 16
Mad River, Ca 95552
SOUTHERN TRINITY AREA RESCUE (STAR), a bi-county EMS/volunteer ambulance service
321 Van Duzen Rd
Bridgeville Ca 95526
TELEGRAPH RIDGE FIRE
PO Box 1152
Redway, CA 95560
WHALE GULCH FIRE
76850B Usal Road
Whitethorn, CA 95589
WHITETHORN FIRE
PO Box 485
Whitethorn, CA 95589
Great list
Sharing on my Facebook page
Thank you!
Here is the address for the Willow Creek Fire Department: PO Box 51, Willow Creek, Ca 95573
We love you fire fighters!! You are our superheros!! Thank god you saved us all!
Another miraculous save for the area. Amazing response by inspired locals. If it would have been windy it would likely have been an inferno. Given that this has been the windiest year of the last 30, due to the larger process of desertification, lack of wind on this fire was very lucky. Throughout the pac nw we have managed the forest into kindling, so what result could possibly be expected besides catastrophic “wild”fire? Under natural and Indian stewardship, the forests seem to have been all old growth coast to coast, so where exactly was the “catastrophic” Wildfire? Logging and it’s cumulative impacts are the catastrophe. It’s not global warming it’s local logging happening everywhere all at once with modern equipment plus the cumulative impact of logging. Early logging and ranching made the Sahara desert In africa 10,000b.c.-8,000b.c. and Colonial logging drastically changed the climate on the east coast of the USA. My neighbor in arcata whose dad ran the streetcar in eureka in the 1800s told me that before the heavy industrial logging of the 1940s there was so much fog in the humboldt bay between arcata and eureka that you couldn’t see to drive and there was a guide pace car that you had to follow. Even since I moved to this region the fog in salmon creek has Relatively speaking, vanished. This is primarily due to local logging. I believe that the timber harvest plan rubberstamper regulators at CDF and USFS need to be sued for arson so that forests can be managed to bring back the old growth ASAP- even the arcata community forest cuts the biggest regrowing trees… the return of old growth characteristics should be the primary focus worldwide, and the biggest trees in a forest should almost NEVER be cut. current logging practices are worse than ever due to greenwashing- a lot of people think it’s “better” now… the forest biomass deficit from logging the pac nw and NorCal today is causing the SAHARA EFFECT on the interior of the entire American West and there’s nary a word said about it.
Salmon creek, and Humboldt bay are two very different ecosystems, with very different geography.
Thank you so much to all firefighters and to Kym for her reporting, for all your hard work !!
Don’t know the cause of this fire yet, but stay alert this fire season is not over yet.
Kym Miranda’s zip code is 95553 p.s. thank you for everything you do
Dang! That’s my post office too and I never noticed when copying and pasting. Thank you! Fixed.
Miranda fires zip code is 95553 thank you Kym
Miranda fires zip code is 95553 Kym please correct thank you for everything you do
Can you possibly cancel those comments I left didn’t think it was working sorry
It would be nice if the CHP actually did their job and patrolled 101 for drivers who drag chains etc. Instead of violating garberville drivers every chance they get