2022 Siskiyou Golden Fair Junior Livestock Results**Auction Results to follow**YREKA – The Siskiyou Golden Fair Junior Livestock Show and Sale @ The Jackson County Expo was held Friday August 12 through Sunday August 14 in Central Point, Oregon due to the McKinney Fire creating a State of Emergency in Siskiyou County. The winners are listed […]
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Eight new fires have been reported since the lightning that occurred over the #KlamathNF
Eight new fires have been reported since the lightning that occurred over the #KlamathNF today, all of which are on the west side of the Forest.Four fires are on the Scott River side of the Salmon/Scott Ranger District: the Box Fire near Paradise Lake is .25 acres; the Townsend Fire is .1 acre near Townsend’s […]
Mean While In Yreka This Morning
Like ~ Subscibe ~Share and help me grow my channel, Thank YouGreat team work that made this look so easy! Nice Work, was blessed once again that no one was harmed. As the boss. said to me, "everyone gets to go home in the same shape that they arrived to work today.. #siskiyoustrong
#CurlyFire Forward Progress Stopped in Happy Camp, CA
***UPDATE from Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office***As of August 17 at 2:33AM: The Evacuation Warning has been lifted for Zone SIS-1218 for the #CurlyFire. At 12:27am Happy Camp Fire Department, Klamath Nation Forest Engines, and Local volunteer fire companies responded to a 1 1/2 acre fire on Curly Jack Road. It had a moderate rate of […]
Mt Shasta Police Crime Report August 6th – 12th
August 06, 2022 to August 12, 2022 Weekly Crime ReportOn August 6, 2022, 29-year-old Megan Nicole Jones was arrested for Public Intoxication.Also on August 6, 2022, 33-year-old Hermelindo Gonzalez Salgado was arrested on outside Warrants.And on August 6, 2022, 31-year-old Cameron Miles Nelson was arrested for Driving While Suspended.On August 7, 2022, 38-year-old Hilarie Ann […]
#McKinneyFire Law Town Hall Meeting
The McKinney Fire lawyers from Robins Cloud LLP are holding a Town Hall Meeting at the Best Western Miner’s Inn, on Friday, August 19th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Yreka.Come learn about the investigation into Pacific Power’s role in causing this devastating fire and what could have been done to prevent it. Get free help, […]
Horror in Paradise
By Mike GrifantiniThe warm, strong trade winds welcomed Paul at the Kahului Airport as he stepped from the plane. He deftly pulled his suitcase on its rollers, knowing the route to the shuttle that would take him to the resort where he always stayed.The ride was beautiful, as always: the greenery along the roads, the […]
Latest Words From Rachel Smith, Forest Supervisor, Klamath National Forest
Today Highway 96 reopened. The reopening, albeit in a limited fashion with a pilot car guiding traffic safely and slowly through the fire ravaged landscape, feels like another milestone in our response to the devastating McKinney Fire. I want to emphasize, however, that although we’ve achieved 75% containment on the fire, we are not done […]
Little Humbug Creek After The Monster Storm
By now most of Siskiyou is aware of the 20 mile stretch of Klamath River were the fish were suffocated by mud! If not please read: https://www.siskiyou.news/post/fish-killed-dissolved-oxygen-levels-dropping-to-zero-on-the-nights-of-august-3-and-4 I meet up with, Terry Smith ~right sideGlenn Njaa ~ left sideTerry and Glenn work for Siskiyou County Road Department. They were doing damage assessment on the culverts […]
6th Aug 2022 Column from Rachel Smith, Forest Supervisor, Klamath National Forest
Yesterday marked a week since the McKinney took off. We’ve experienced some heartbreaking losses – four lives lost, 87 residences reported as destroyed so far (the assessment is only about halfway done), and an uncountable impact to our remarkable National Forest and private property. But, we are gaining ground. As of this morning’s briefing, our […]
