After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

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 […]

This is KBUU News – day 33 of the fire – the headlines: =  Malibu’s fire chief says state law will prevent some houses from being rebuilt. =  The sheriff says the roadblocks may cost top lieutenants their jobs. =  A new mayor and two city council members sworn in. = Southern California Edison failed […]

Caltrans officials say they hope to find some sort of solution soon for dozens of residents were still trapped outside of their houses … because of fire repair work on mountain and canyon roads west of Malibu. Utility crews from Southern California Edison and Frontier Communications have their trucks on the roads. Plus… Caltrans is […]

Southern California Edison told the state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday an outage of its equipment before the Woolsey Fire may have been caused by a guy wire and a jumper making contact. The official cause of the fire is still under investigation. Now … the state’s news media have finally discovered that the California […]

The spectre of one tenth of Malibu’s houses burned down … loomed heavily over Malibu city council chambers last night … as a new mayor and city council were sworn in. There was more than an hour of ceremonial proclamations and small gifts lavished by people outside Malibu on the two departing city council members […]