Preparations are underway for the third annual Rumble Over the Redwoods airshow at California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (KACV) in McKinleyville on August 8-9. To mitigate pyrotechnic risks, Dennis Dunbar of organizer Dunbar Airshows said that includes a prescribed grass burn.
“Safety is key,” Dunbar said. “We do prescribed burns before most of the shows we do, and we always have [fire] trucks standing by during the pyrotechnics.”

![Rumble Over the Redwoods Returns for Third Annual Airshow A P-51 Mustang performs at the 2025 Rumble Over the Redwoods airshow in Humboldt County, California. [Credit: Dunbar Airshows/Ross Smiley]](https://tbh.express/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Rumble-Over-the-Redwoods-Returns-for-Third-Annual-Airshow-768x512.jpg)