The Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services has issued a countywide alert warning that all PG&E customers in the county will lose power early tomorrow afternoon due to the Public Safety Power Shutoff being enacted in the face of severe fire conditions in portions of Humboldt County and surrounding areas. The office is urging residents […]
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Eureka, County Seek Info on Impacts of Shutdown While Newsom Wants PG&E to Pay
The city of Eureka and the county of Humboldt are asking residents to help officials assess the economic damages and impacts to families as a result of PG&E’s Oct. 9 shutdown of the power grid. The blackout was what is known as a “public safety power shutoff,” a mechanism enacted by PG&E when certain weather […]
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UPDATE: Officials: The ‘Outage’ Letter Circulating on Social Media is Fake
UPDATE: It’s official. The Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services says the letter is a fake. There is a fraudulent letter being received by some Humboldt residents about a scheduled power outage this week. The letter is NOT from PG&E and no outage is scheduled. — Humboldt Co OES (@HumCoOES) October 14, 2019 PREVIOUS: The […]
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Sen. McGuire: PG&E to Begin Restoring Power to Humboldt Tonight
Restoration of electrical service to Humboldt County will begin tonight, according to North Coast state Sen. Mike McGuire. McGuire tweeted at about 6:20 p.m. that the process may take several hours as PG&E conducts line inspections, adding that restoration to Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, Trinity and Marin counties will begin tomorrow afternoon. Other sources not authorized to speak […]
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Planned EBT Card Outage This Weekend
The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services is reaching out to let residents who use electronic benefit transfer cards, or EBTs, know they will not be able to use their accounts for a 24-hour period this weekend due to a statewide upgrade. Holders will not be able to buy food or get cash […]
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On the Heels of Blackouts, AT&T Promises Upgrades
It looks like the North Coast’s AT&T customers will be entering the modern era of telecommunications reliability. Next year. In a letter sent to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors today, the company said it’s “upgrading the North Coast network to significantly increase the network’s protection against outages or service disruptions caused by fiber damage.” […]
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Need $10K? Find the AT&T Slasher
AT&T is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction for whoever sliced through a fiber optic line Thursday morning between Ukiah and Hopland, resulting in a 16-hour Internet, phone and television outage that impacted five counties. Humboldt County was among the hardest hit by the outage, which stretched from […]