After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Malibu’s Emergency Operations Plan … its blueprint to use in disasters  … is itself a disaster. The old plan was written years ago and is not in compliance with state laws … or for that matter reality. City staff had just finished a new emergency operations plan … several hundred pages thick … and submitted […]

L A County Fire is going to start staffing a desk at Malibu City Hall … two days a week … with a person who is authorized to make decisions on rebuilding fire damaged houses. The fire chief … Daryl Osby … committed to stationing a decision-maker at city hall after residents told him of […]

Southern California Edison is hiring crews to remove tree limbs near its power lines … in Malibu. The company has hired crews to begin implementing fire risk reduction plans ordered by the California Public Utilities Commission. The new rules require tree limbs to be removed if they are within 12 feet of an overhead power […]

Call it hail. Call it sleet. Call it grapple. The LA Times even called it “powder.” Most people called it snow … but that really stretches the definition of the word …. snow. Icy wet material fell over nearly all of Malibu yesterday. It was 49 degrees in the Malibu at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon […]

This is KBUU News – Day 107 – the Friday Headlines: = Now at Boney Mountain … falling ice everywhere else. = Thousands of trees in Malibu going to get pruned or removed … fire dangers. = The city has an old emergency operations plan … and a new one that may be just as […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   Reva Feldman is named California city manager of the year…. her critics are howling. =   A sheriff’s helicopter circled Trancas last night … looks like it was responding to a hoax. =   46 down … 960 to go … in terms of fire wreck […]

Southern California Edison will start first in Malibu … as it embarks on a half billion dollar project to reduce fire dangers in high fire risk areas. That’s the word from the City of Malibu … as it explains why it has granted the Edison Company permission to use a vacant lot int he center […]

It looks doubtful that state contractors will meet the deadline to remove fire debris in the Wolsey Fire disaster. Right now … they are 46 down and 960 to go. That’s the track record so far for the Cal Recycles crews … removing fire-destroyed houses from Malibu … the Conejo Valley and Ventura County. About […]

Malibu city manager Reva Feldman has been named city manager of the year by the California City Manager Foundation. Feldman has been the chief executive officer in Malibu for three years. The association noted that Feldman has assisted other cities and other city managers … In naming Feldman city manager of the year … the […]

52º and clear at 5:55 this morning in Malibu. This is KBUU News – the Thursday headlines: = Reva Feldman is named California city manager of the year…. her critics are howling. = A sheriff’s helicopter circled Trancas last night … looks like it was responding to a hoax. = 46 down … 960 to […]