🌱 Miranda firefighters rush to help as Phillipsville barn fire spreads

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• Miranda firefighters rush to help as Phillipsville barn fire spreads

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Some sunshine, with a high of 83 and low of 49 degrees.
• Saturday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 83, low: 50.
• Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high of 86 and low of 49 degrees. 🌶 Hot!

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📰 News we're reading

• [UPDATE 5:32 p.m.] Barn Fire Threatens Multiple Structures on Phillipsville Road (kymkemp.com) — Volunteer firefighters from Miranda are on the front lines of a barn fire in nearby Phillipsville, where flames are threatening multiple structures along Phillipsville Road this evening. Crews from Miranda, Redway, Phillipsville, Briceland, and Garberville, plus aircraft support, are working to contain the blaze just days after a separate house fire on the same road.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday August 28

• HHS Football AWAY vs Burney
  Hayfork High Hayfork, CA 96041
  6:00 pm
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  Grant Elementary Eureka, CA 95503
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Saturday August 29

• HHS Volleyball Tournament @ Burney
  Mountain Valley Unified Hayfork, CA 96041
• Against All Odd punk fest →
  RampArt Indoor Skate Park Arcata, 700 S G St, Arcata
  3:00 pm
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Monday August 31

• Booster Club Meeting @ Hayfork High School
  Mountain Valley Unified Hayfork, CA 96041
  6:00 pm

Tuesday September 1

• HHS Volleyball AWAY vs Butte Valley
  Hayfork High Hayfork, CA 96041
  5:30 pm
• Caveman Dave →
  Redwood Curtain Brewing Company - Eureka, Myrtletown Taproom, Eureka
  6:00 pm

Wednesday September 2

• Walking Wednesday
  Grant Elementary Eureka, CA 95503
  7:30 am
• HHS Picture Makeup Day
  Mountain Valley Unified Hayfork, CA 96041
  2:00 pm
• HHS Sports Picture Day
  Mountain Valley Unified Hayfork, CA 96041
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🗞 Nearby News

Garberville

• Letter to the Editor: Dutch Charlie Creek's Coho Refuge Is Worth Defending (kymkemp.com)

Fortuna

• Fortuna's ‘Big John' Morrison Remembered as Beloved Logger, Family Man (kymkemp.com)
• Beyond the fog line: Resilience in Humboldt County's remote classrooms (times-standard.com)
• Eureka splits tournament games, bests Ferndale in early season (times-standard.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: What a re-leaf! (Thank you Flo G. for sending it in!)
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