A trimaran called the Midnight Sun struck rocks near Shelter Cove last night and the crew had to escape on an inflatable boat and make their way into harbor through the storm, said Cheryl Antony of the Shelter Cove Fire Department. “Something happened to their boat. … They sent out a distress signal at 9:30 […]
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Eight Shelter Cove Homes Damaged as Massive Waves Pound the Coast
Eight homes on Lower Pacific Drive in Shelter Cove have extensive damage from massive waves hitting the shoreline today, said Cheryl Antony, spokesperson for Shelter Cove Fire. One home has approximately 10 broken windows. Homes are flooded, furniture damaged, one door was broken, debris, water and mud are strewn throughout the homes. And the waves […]
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UPDATE: Fatality Victim Identified in Shelter Cove Accident
UPDATE: Lt. Mike Fridley of Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the deceased man as Martin Arrendondo’suarez, 28, from Shelter Cove. Previously: Cheryl Antony, public information officer of Shelter Cove Volunteer Fire Department confirmed that a person has died after a car drove off a steep embankment on Chemise Mountain Road off Shelter Cove Road in […]
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Humboldt on Tap
Humans have no monopoly on loving beer. From its warm, grain-rich beginnings to the last bit of water syphoned away during brewing, beer is a feast for species great and small. Cattle munch on the grain left over after brewing. New crops of barley thrive under a mulch of spent grain. Microbes multiply in the […]
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Myers Flat Man Dies While Surfing Off Shelter Cove
A Myers Flat man died Sunday after apparently suffering a medical emergency while surfing off of Shelter Cove, the third drowning death in Humboldt County in less than two weeks. Michael Allen Byerley, 51, was pulled out of the water by fellow surfers and taken to the Shelter Cove Volunteer Fire Department, where he was pronounced […]
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UPDATE: Name of Shelter Cove Man Killed in ‘Intentional’ Collision Released
Update: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today identified the man killed May 3 in what officials described as an intentional act as Shelter Cove resident Jesse Earl Simpson. He was 42. Previous: A fatal traffic collision in Shelter Cove yesterday left one person dead and a 45-year-man has been arrested in what officials are calling […]
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The Cove by Copter
Hiking is hard and your drone is starting to make you look creepy. But how else to see nature’s glory? As part of the Plein Air at the Lost Coast festivities on Oct. 3 and 4, Air Shasta took locals and visiting art enthusiasts up, up and away in its slick little Robinson R44 helicopter. […]
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Who’s Going to Put Out the Fire? Volunteer Firefighters Aging Out of the Service
The ranks of volunteer fire departments are dwindling for lack of fresh faces. The New York Times reported on this trend last year, citing several factors including a shift from volunteer to career firefighting, lack of time for volunteering and the aging of rural populations. This last factor has had a decided impact on departments […]
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Dramatic Rescue on the Lost Coast Trail
Emergency crews from almost a dozen agencies worked through Saturday night and into Sunday morning to rescue a hiker from a remote area of the Lost Coast Trail, near Shelter Cove. The crews battled an incoming tide, darkness and heavy fog to get the hiker — who’d been critically injured in a fall — to […]
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Montana Man Drowns Saving Son in Shelter Cove
A Montana man drowned Sunday morning near Shelter Cove after saving his 13-year-old son who’d fallen into the water. Steven Arthur Bierle, 44, of Gardiner, Montana, was vacationing in the Shelter Cove area with his family when, shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 15, his son slipped on a rock on Black Sands Beach […]
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UPDATE: “Wild Bill’ Convicted of Deputy Shooting
UPDATE: A jury this afternoon convicted William “Wild Bill” Nelson of the attempted murder of a Humboldt County sheriff’s deputy, according to Assistant District Attorney Kelly Neel. Nelson shot deputy Bang Cao once in the chest as Cao was trying to serve a judge’s order forcing Nelson to move out of his girlfriend’s Shelter Cove […]