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=  Malibu is full of smoke from the Tick Fire in Santa Clarita. =  70 mile per hour wind gusts still blowing … just above Malibu. = No schools today in Malibu … and with another big Santa Ana on tap Sunday night … school is an open question on Monday = I f you’re […]

Tomorrow … L A County will open the mic to the public … to analyze the report on  what went wrong in the Woolsey Fire. As we’ve reproted extensively … the county has hired an outside consultant … Citygate Associates … to write a report on the county’s response to the fire … It h […]

Malibu’s public schools are closed today. And there is a slight possibility they will be closed on Monday. More on that in a second. —— One last big push of Santa Anas this morning … as fire crews battle a huge fire 40 miles away. There are no fires … no fires … burning in […]

=  Santa Anas to 65 miles an hour …blackouts possible in western malibu. =  Not quite as bad as conditions were in Woolsey … but almost … says the fire department. =   The official report is in … the fire department’s actions explained in abandoning Malibu. =  Malibu High may close tomorrow … if […]

[COLD OPEN TAKE NEWSCART 75326 IMBRENDA ONE] “We expect extreme fire behavior potential. “Right now we have critical fuel moistures in this area  “We are expecting very high winds. “We have had sustained hot temperatures for days now. “So we expect significant fire problems should we get a start out here.” That’s L A County […]

Now .. analysis of the Woolsey Fire after action report. LA County hired an outside auditor to review the fire department’s actins during Woolsey. The Woolsey Fire was 97,949 acres.  The 2003 Old Topanga Fire was 16,516 acres. – Fire of this size and speed had never been experienced or planned for. – “The expectation […]

=   More Santa Anas today and tonight. =   Tomorrow night  … we could see 60 mile per hour gusts. =   Firefighters are looking for embers in Pacific Palisades … could spark another big fire. =   A private traffic light is switched on … in central Malibu. =   The cellphone companies did not […]

With another big Santa Ana wind storm in the forecast in over the next three days … firefighters just east of Malibu are working hard to stamp out all embers and hot spots from yesterday’s brushfire. About 40 acres of very steep mountainside went up in flames yesterday midday. The fire was clearly visible from […]

Cellphone customers in northern California were cut off when massive sections of the state were blacked out for fire danger. This … after the FCC and state government have asked the cell companies what their emergency power capabilities are. Last week … huge sections of California lost emergency communications … regular communications  … data… cable […]

Caltrans has turned on the new private traffic light on P C H. The new pedestrian signal serves the Malibu Beach Inn. Of course … anyone can push the button and stop traffic on PCH. But this signal was  designed … paid for and installed by the private hotels’s owners … to benefit themselves. The […]