After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

About 250 residents whose homes were lost or damaged in the Woolsey Fire that ravaged Malibu last month gathered yesterday afternoon for the second meeting of Operation Recovery. Our correspondent … Sam Hall Kaplan … filed this report. The meeting at the Malibu Jewish Center, was sponsored by the Malibu Times. It attracted some 50 […]

Malibu residents used to seeing lane closures on Pacific Coast Highway ain’t seen nothing yet. Caltrans has plans to flood Malibu with repair crews six days a week … daytimes … starting today. Fire damaged hillsides and debris clogged drains need immediate attention following the fire. Mud is flowing during rainstorms onto the pavement in […]

At one end of the Malibu social strategy … the rich and famous partied last night. At the other end. … volunteers scraping togethers surfboards for kids and adults who lost everything in the fire. Victims were treated to new and recycled surfing gear at Saturday’s Malibu Stokefest. These boys looked like Christmas morning in […]

Santa Monica city officials are finding housing for about 10 to 15 families from Malibu … families of modest financial means. This is according to an article in the Santa Moncia Daily Press. The Community Corporation of Santa Monica is finding affordable housing for the working class families.  The program is targeting families from Malibu […]

Inspectors are supposed to begin fanning out over Western Los Angeles County today … looking at 1600 destroyed houses and thousands of damaged structures. But the issue of him when demolition permits will begin to start flowing is still a matter of confusion and interagency wrangling. Not a pretty picture … but that’s what is […]

This is KBUU News – Day 22 of the fire – the headlines: =  No additional mudflows overnight. =  Two days of sun now … but rain may arrive tomorrow. =  The slop at Cuthbert at Phillip has been bulldozed away … for now. =  Webster and Pepperdine both are in session today … after […]

Yards and yards of muddy soup poured out of the hillside last night… causing the city of malibu to hit the warning horns and order evacuation of the area. Good call. The series of rain squalls that swept across Malibu yesterday left the hillside unstable … liquid soup quickly clogged storm drains … and goo […]

The annual free Household Hazardous Waste & E-Waste Recycling Roundup for Malibu area residents is tomorrow … Saturday. This is the annual event to get rid of household hazardous waste … and this year … it’s important to remember that this is -NOT- for fire debris. Things like antifreeze, unused pharmaceuticals, car batteries, used motor […]

STOKE FEST …. is being set up for this Saturday at Zuma beach. It’s a day of healing .. surfing … friendship … aloha… music and laughter. The idea … get old unused surfboards and wetsuits out of garages and closets. Get them into hands of kids and adults who lost theirs in the fire. […]

The weather forecast for Santa Monica tonight is snow. It will be snowing on the Third Street Promenade tonight when the City of Santa Monica rings in the holiday season with the lighting of the official Christmas tree this evening. The ceremony takes place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the 1200 block near […]