After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

An 18-wheeler truck and two passenger vehicles crashed late last night on Pacific Coast Highway east of Mugu Rock last night. The crash was reported just after 10 on the coast highway near Thornhill Broome Beach .. about 15 miles west of Trancas.  A semi-trailer was on its side … so was a Ford Ranger pickup. A […]

4PM TUESDAY UPDATE…RED FLAG WARNING OVER MOST OF LOS ANGELES AND VENTURA COUNTIES FOR EARLY THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON DUE TO GUSTY SANTA ANA WINDS AND VERY LOW HUMIDITY… Red Flag Warnings are up for tomorrow night … and Southern California Edison now says it might black out Malibu … as the fall’s first big […]

=  It’s looking more and more like Malibu is going to get a good strong Santa Ana Thursday. =  The KBUU forecast for an intentional power outage???   40 percent. =  An underground power line blows up in Huntington Beach. 5 hurt. =  An armed confrontation in the hemp fields west of Malibu. =  What?? […]

Overnight runs of the forecast computers at the National Weather Service are jelling … confirming that heavy Santa Ana winds will hit Malibu lat this week. And that brings with it the possibility of intentional electric blackouts. The winds look likely … the blackouts we are still left guessing about. Winds will arrive Wednesday night […]

On Saturday night … in Huntington Beach .. a Southern California Edison electrical transformer exploded in the middle of a big street party. Two firefighters and three civilians were injured. The Los Angeles Times reports that the underground transformers were making strange noises a week ago … when the restaurant owner had asked Edison to […]

The strawberry fields up the coast from Malibu are changing … right before our eyes. Berries coming out … hemp is going in. And last weekend … an armed confrontation on a pot growing field on Hueneme Road … just west of the Navy airfield. The Ventura County Star reports that armed security guards and […]

In what may be a taste of what is to come for Malibu … another coastal city is digging a line in the sand over how to protect property against rising sea levels. It’s Del Mar … a small city just north of La Jolla. That city has taken the position that “managed retreat” along […]

BROADCAST FRIDAY MORNING.  POSTED FRIDAY NIGHT.  =   A judge says the Broad Beach sand replenishment project is dead.. =   But the special tax district’s lawyer says they will press ahead anyway, =  Malibu will see a flood of red ink … if it bans overnight rentals.… =   But residential neighborhood advocates say […]

The daily afternoon traffic jam at the Point Dume elementary school campus was easily predicted … when the school district closed Cabrillo Elementary and sent those kids to the point. The regional assistant superintendent for the school district says handling the traffic  jam is a work in progress. Isaac Burgess. NEWSCART 75308 FERNHILL BURGESS AAA […]

BROADCAST FRIDAY MORNING. POSTED FRIDAY NIGHT.  TYPO CORRECTED SUNDAY Malibu’s city government is hooked on tax revenue from overnight rentals. That’s the message delivered by a team of outside financial consultants … delivered to a city council subcommittee meeting yesterday. A packed conference room … dozens of Malibu residents … most of them furious that […]