After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

A group of academic researchers opening a case study on what went wrong in Malibu. Working on a grant from the Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Coalition … the group is interviewing people who made the decision to stay and defend their homes. The Los Angeles emergency preparedness foundation is a non-prophet Group that works with […]

City emergency services director Susan Duenas says the City of Malibu is going to make some changes to its emergency operations plan … as a result of the Woolsey Fire. Duenas appeared before the Malibu city council meeting last night. She says the Woolsey Fire showed area that need improvement. Evacuations … roadblocks … communication […]

Are there mandatory evacuations over a broad swath of Malibu??? No. But there is widespread confusion. The sheriff’s office put out a news release … read by Malibu city manager Reva Feldman last night at the city council meeting. The news was carried live on KBUU radio. NEWSCART 06584 FELDMAN ANNOUNCE :32 QQQ: PARK AND […]

Sheriff’s deputies went door to door last night … warning about 200 Malibu residences that they were in mandatory evacuation areas effective 8 a-m this morning And this storm is bigger and a little earlier than predicted last night. The timing of the flash flood watches …. now given as midday. Overall, the intensity of […]

MANDATORY EVACUATIONS ORDERED FOR PARADISE COVE, RAMIREZ CANYON, TRANCAS CANYON/MALIBU WEST LATIGO CANYON INCLUDING – OLD CHIMNEY – ESCONDIDO DR – EL NIDO NEIGHBORHOOD   7:45 UPDATE Monday night   LA county will evacuate Malibu neighborhoods Tuesday morning — as many as 200 residences. City manager Reva Feldman announced tonight that mandatory evacuations will begin […]

This is KBUU News – Day 67 – The Headlines: =   Flood Warning issued … but the heaviest rain is still offshore. =   Big concern along Trancas Creek … in Malibu West … as debris basins fill … and are emptied. =   Three occupied houses in Malibu West … and two vacant […]

The KBUU webstream is now W-O-R-K-I-N-G.   We’ve had a team of Frontier/FioS people on this for 48 hours.   Frontier’s netwrok ops enter and rtecnhical ops center, a field tech and the brass at the headquarters: thank you. We need this vital link!   www.radiomalibu.net

Ready, set, go. LOOK AT THE MAPS LINKED BELOW. IF YOUR HOME IS IN A RED OR ORANGE FLOOD AREA, GET READY TO GO. NOW. You should be almost at step two, and be set to evacuate your house tonight in parts of Malibu. Yesterday, we put fire chief on the radio and he said […]

This is KBUU News – Day 64 – The Headlines: =   Traffic signal repairs are over on PCH at Las Flores … after a major morning jam. =   Heavy rain will arrive tonight at about 11. =   The USGS says much of Malibu West … Escondido Canyon and the Civic Center area […]

It took a half year for this to happen … but official opposition is growing against allowing power companies to turn off electricity when it gets windy. The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday held a public hearing on Public Safety Power Shutoffs. We’re talking about PSPS … the preemptive blackouts that the CPUC suddenly imposed […]