After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Malibu will likely form a formal commission … a task force … to look into what went wrong during the Woolsey Fire. A special city council meeting has been called for Tuesday afternoon to renew the emergency declaration … as must be done every two weeks. And at that meeting … the city council is […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   Toxic mud piled up on the fields at Malibu High. =   Air quality monitors go up … a litle dust  … but overall good readings. =   Sheila Kuehl wants an investigation into the fire response. =   Clouds yes … rain no today in […]

The California Public Utilities Commission is starting over again on the issue of PSPS …. the controversial policy of allowing public safety power shutoffs. Last summer …. with virtually no public discussion and no advance warning … the CPUC allowed Southern California Edison and other utilities to set their own rules. Yesterday … the Commission […]

Toxic fire mud on the fields at Malibu High is raising parent concerns. Black mud has oozed down from destroyed houses in Malibu Park …. onto the school’s fields. The mud is a mixture of ashes … and dirt … and it is being piled up on and near the school’s tennis courts. That has […]

Malibu area county supervisor Sheila Kuehl says she will ask for a vote next week …for an intensive probe on the reaction by public agencies to the Woolsey Fire. Kuehl hosted a public forum last night … on the fire … at King Gillette Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. A second forum will be […]

The insured losses from the conflagrations that consumed thousands of acres in California last month and killed more than 80 people already total 9 billion dollars … and 1 point 6 billion dollars of that was just in Malibu. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones released the statewide figures yesterday. About $8.36 billion in damages come […]

This is KBUU News – on Day 34 of the fire. The headlines: =  Another 54 houses cleared of hazmat stuff yesterday … the job is one quarter done. =  33 days after the fire … another section of Malibu is reopened to residents. =  We have details on the mother and son who were […]

The California Public Utilities Commission has – incredibly – scheduled two important public reviews of electric safety rules for Malibu … at the same time … at the other end of the state. Both start at 10 a-m Friday . One in San Francisco … the other in Sacramento. The San Francisco session is held […]

33 days after the fire … some residents were allowed in to their destroyed homes … or their surviving homes … in western Malibu for the first time yesterday. Caltrans and county road crews … plus utility company trucks … have been clogging the twisty and narrow mountain roads. This is in the Encinal and […]

State and federal hazmat inspectors have cleared another 54 properties yesterday … removing hazardous material from burned-out houses. And clearing the way from property owners to remove their burned out debris. That brings the total to 218 … about a quarter of the burned out structures in Malibu and the rest of the Woolsey fire […]