Humboldt County Law, Fire, and EMS - Eureka and South

Feed Notes

 Using a Barix Instreamer 100 to run this feed.

Law Enforcement includes the Arcata, Eureka, Fortuna, Ferndale and Rio Dell City Police, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department, California Fish and Game, California Department of Forestry and the Humboldt Area California Highway Patrol.

Fire and EMS frequencies monitor local Cal Fire, California Department of Forestry; Arcata, Eureka, Fortuna, Ferndale and Rio Dell Fire, Scotia, Hydesville and Carlotta Fire and many more rural volunteer departments in the southern part of the county. City Ambulance and Garberville Ambulance are also monitored.

Coast Guard distress and hailing frequencies are monitored. The Pacific Ocean is visible from this location and is at a distance of seven miles.

Local airport frequencies are monitored, including the Rohnerville, Samoa, Arcata and Murray Field frequencies. The main County Public Works channel is monitored.

This station has made available local weather data and webcam images for over a decade and has been providing an Internet scanner feed since 2005. It is situated near the Rohnerville Airport in Fortuna, at 200 feet of elevation. This location provides line of sight to all of Fortuna and to most of the Eel River delta. It has excellent reception of all North Coast mountaintop repeaters.
Local transmissions are not trunked and the scanner is a standard analog model. The antenna is a vertical VHF collinear about ten feet long, mounted at the top of a short mast.
Equipment was recently added to allow continuing operation during electrical power loss. It was put to the ultimate test several weeks after its installation when the area suffered a power loss of nearly three hours. During this lengthy interruption the DSL circuit remained up and the network and computers providing the scanner feed and the uploading of the weather data functioned normally.

Technical information and frequency list.