After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

We are trying to get details on what the state describes as plans for a prescribed burn … a wildfire reduction effort … apparently planned for the Big Rock area of Malibu. A project identified as the “Big Rock Prescribed Burn” … in Los Angeles County … appears on a state CalFire Priority Fuel Reduction […]

It’s sunny and 56º at Trancas this morning at 7:53. Traffic is normal and SURF IS UP. = CalFire says a prescribed burn is planned for Big Rock. = But L A County Fire is not sure what that state announcement means. = Malibu is selling Dolphin stickers to residents again … but they won’t […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has taken a nearly 9 million dollar hit in state funding. That’s because the LA County Office Of Education has ruled that the district is no longer entitled to money from the California budget … because its property tax revenues are so large. The Santa Monica Daily Press reports […]

A County Sheriff Alex Villanueva may have been undercut on the hiring of his close campaign aide … a sheriff’s deputy who had been fired by the county after evidence was presented that he beat up his girlfriend. The Los Angeles Times broke the story.  https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-county-lawsuit-villanueva-deputy-20190304-story.html The newspaper has learned that L A County officials […]

The Malibu Beach Inn would not be allowed to spread across Pacific Coast Highway … if last night’s decision by the city Planning Commission is upheld. They voted last night … 4 to 1 … not to allow the hotel to park cars across the P C H and down the street. Jeff Jennings … […]

A Flash Flood Watch goes into effect for Malibu at 6 pm tonight … but the main part of tonight’s approaching storm will probably hit around 9 p-m. People in the recent burn areas are warned that peak rain rates of 0.50 to 0.80 inches per hour will be possible … which is more than […]

= About 2 inches of rain heading to Malibu tonight and tomorrow. = The Malibu burn area is in a Phase One mudflow alert. = Planning Commissioners reject the Malibu Beach Inn plan to park cars across PCH. = The school district gets a nasty budget surprise from L A County … a 9 million […]

=  Malibu Canyon Road has reopened … after that car sized boulder gets chipped away. =  Malibu High’s principal is resigning … after 2 years. =   Should an extra traffic light go up on PCH for the Malibu Beach Inn? A decision tonight. =  The Coastal Commission gets Malibu’s fire emergency changes this week. […]

Malibu is going to see  a flyover of the US Air Force Thunderbirds in their signature Delta formation today. Actually two of them. The Thunderbirds will be performing over the Hollywood premiere of Capt. Marvel at 5:30 this evening. But they’ll take a practice run at about 1215. They are scheduled to fly over Pepperdine […]