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The KBUU webstream is now W-O-R-K-I-N-G.   We’ve had a team of Frontier/FioS people on this for 48 hours.   Frontier’s netwrok ops enter and rtecnhical ops center, a field tech and the brass at the headquarters: thank you. We need this vital link!   www.radiomalibu.net

Ready, set, go. LOOK AT THE MAPS LINKED BELOW. IF YOUR HOME IS IN A RED OR ORANGE FLOOD AREA, GET READY TO GO. NOW. You should be almost at step two, and be set to evacuate your house tonight in parts of Malibu. Yesterday, we put fire chief on the radio and he said […]

This is KBUU News – Day 64 – The Headlines: =   Traffic signal repairs are over on PCH at Las Flores … after a major morning jam. =   Heavy rain will arrive tonight at about 11. =   The USGS says much of Malibu West … Escondido Canyon and the Civic Center area […]

It took a half year for this to happen … but official opposition is growing against allowing power companies to turn off electricity when it gets windy. The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday held a public hearing on Public Safety Power Shutoffs. We’re talking about PSPS … the preemptive blackouts that the CPUC suddenly imposed […]

The death toll from the Woolsey Fire has now increased to four. And this woman is the first reported death from the center of Malibu. Family members tell the Malibu Times that Point Dume resident Debbie Purucker died five weeks after the fire … in a hospital. She was 55. Debbie Purucker and her husband […]

Rain will start falling in Malibu tonight at four … the beginning of seven days of rain predicted by the National Weather Service. Heavy rain will fall tonight starting at around 11 o clock or so. We should get about one inch of rain from this first storm … was most of it falling between […]

The U-S Geologic Survey has looked at the fire-scraped mountains above Malibu … and the canyons below. And it has released an alarming series of maps that show dozens of houses under water … or likely … surrounded by mud … in the event of a heavy rain. The city has released the set of […]

https://www.radiomalibu.net/kbuu-newswire-thurs-jan-10-day-63/ This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  Is FEMA money for Malibu cut off? The White House won’t explain. =  Malibu public safety director Susan Duenas says the city’s hands were completely tied … =  But some Malibu residents don’t accept her explanation about evacuations and roadblocks. =  City planners continue to work […]

The deadline to sign up for the Cal Recycles demolition project has been extended. Landowners may sign up for the program until January 28th. As you know … the state program CalRecycle will work in conjunction with the LA County Public Works, will provide debris removal for homes destroyed by the Woolsey Fire, and removal […]

City planners have tinkered and revised their propose definition of temporary housing. But temp houses cannot become permanent ADUs. This is important for residents who want to use a mobile home… trailer or a Connex home as temporary dwelling while their burned down houses are rebuilt. The city planners are recommending that temporary housing structures […]