After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

An intentional blackout hit Malibu with zero advance notice last night …. and there is no word on how long it will last. Six hours after the highest Santa Ana winds hit Malibu yesterday … Southern California Edison turned out the power to one part of the city. The first P S P S – […]

This is KBUU News – Day 353 – the Thursday Headlines: = Power out in the Paradise Cove area … no idea from Edison when it will come back. = Signals are out at four places on P C H … but generators are here to keep the water pressure is up. = The peak […]

=    Passersby just put out a fire … power lines fell and sparked the brush … on Mulholland. =    A monster Santa Ana bears down on Southern California. =    Winds will be in the 50 mile per hour range tonight on the beaches … up to 80 in the mountains. =   […]

Malibu will move to 100 percent renewable electricity. The city council last night voted to shift the default option for every electric customer in the city … to a 100 percent green electricity supply. The cost will be about 8 percent more than the current power rates. But customers will have ample opportunities to decide […]

Malibu will regulate overnight rentals … by banning overnight rentals owned by outside parties. The city council voted last night to adopt the same type of regulations that already exist in Santa Monica … with a Malibu twist. The decision came after more than two hours of testimony … mostly … criticism of the city’s […]

LA county sheriff”s officials failed to notify Malibu city officials about the Sepulveda Pass fire as it broke out in the middle of the night … and city officials say that lead to a delay in official response and notifications.  The fire broke out about 1:45 yesterday morning (Monday Oct 28). City staff were not […]

Passersby put out a small brushfire caused by Southern California Edison power lines, which fell along Mulholland Hwy east of Malibu canyon-Las Virgenes Road. At first  … more than 500 homes lost power in the central Santa Monica Mountains. That was later revised downward to 161 homes powerless at 8 this morning. The fire broke […]

=  Malibu is full of smoke from the Tick Fire in Santa Clarita. =  70 mile per hour wind gusts still blowing … just above Malibu. = No schools today in Malibu … and with another big Santa Ana on tap Sunday night … school is an open question on Monday = I f you’re […]

Tomorrow … L A County will open the mic to the public … to analyze the report on  what went wrong in the Woolsey Fire. As we’ve reproted extensively … the county has hired an outside consultant … Citygate Associates … to write a report on the county’s response to the fire … It h […]

Malibu’s public schools are closed today. And there is a slight possibility they will be closed on Monday. More on that in a second. —— One last big push of Santa Anas this morning … as fire crews battle a huge fire 40 miles away. There are no fires … no fires … burning in […]