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= The 101 Freeway is closed in Encino – eastbound. Expect slopover traffic on PCH. = Witnesses blame Southern California Edison for last week’s fire. = Fire investigators concentrate on an SCE transmission line in Sylmar = Three small brushfires ignited in the mountains above Malibu last Friday. = A state law inspired by Mitrice […]
9PM UPDATE THURSDAY. The “WENDY FIRE” IS A BIG ONE. KBUU UPDATES ON THE RADIO TONIGHT EVERY 30 MINUTES … at the top of the hour and :30 after. A brushfire that started at the southern edge of Newbury park shows the possibility of burning to the ocean at Point Mugu by morning. A […]
Santa Anas avoided the Santa Monica Mountains and Malibu this afternoon. Still no blackouts. And Malibu public schools WILL be in session tomorrow. Three small fire ignitions in the Santa Monica Mountains today. NOT related … firefighters say. All put out quickly. One of the fires … was just north of Mulholland Highway at the […]
= The National Weather Service is backing off a bit on the peak wind predictions for tomorrow. = But Southern California Edison is warning it may cut the power to Western Malibu anyway. = Schools will be in session tomorrow … but maybe not Friday if blackouts come. = We’ll tell you exactly which Malibu […]
A woman who helped oversee the massive reconstruction of Ventura after a destructive brush fire has been hired at Maoibu City Hall to be in charge of the building department. Yolanda Bundy will be the new Environmental Sustainability Department director. That makes her the City Building Official. She replaces Craig George … who retired. Bundy […]
Rat poison has killed another two mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu.. P-30 and P-53 both had likely eaten smaller mammals that had been killed by poison. P-30 was found dead in Topanga State Park on Sept. 9 … after his radio collar sent out a signal that he had stopped moving. […]
Santa Anas and potential power blackouts are the talk of Malibu this morning. A Red Flag Warning morning goes up at 3 o’clock in the morning tomorrow … and the big blow will happen tomorrow afternoon. But the peak wind gusts predicted by the National Weather Service are floating up-and-down. The latest communiqué predicts 60 […]
= Red Flag Warnings with gusts up to 70 miles an hour in the mountains on Thursday. = Southern California Edison has not extended blackout warnings to Malibu. = But 630,000 Californians are under blackout warnings right now. = malibu’s 18 inch Ocean level estimate is about to get swamped by the coastal commission. = […]
Malibu officials continue to move rebuilding applications through the planning and zoning office quickly. But the fire rebuilds are gumming up in the building safety area … where blueprints have to go thru plan check to make sure they meet building codes … fire department requirements … water flow … landscaping … et cetera. Right […]
Climate change … rising ocean levels … coming home to roost at the Malibu City Hall. Last night … one planning commissIoner so the city is being unrealistic in approving houses on the beach. And another planning commissioner responded with a climate change denial argument. Commissioner Kraig Hill said this current city Standard of planning […]