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City council members voiced strong and unanimous support yesterday for city manager Reve Feldman. This … in the face of a petition to recall the city manager. Of course … a city manager cannot be recalled …. she can be fired … but not recalled. The writer behind an internet website and occasional tabloid newspaper […]

Malibu is going to join a countywide fire debris removal program … the local debris program. That … despite some criticism of the program from some residents. Former mayor Jeff Jennings … for example … said the city is transferring a lot of control to th county government. And he says the program is being […]

Two city council members will decide how to create task forces to investigate what went wrong in Malibu during the fire. Meeting yesterday afternoon … the council decided it would be impractical to have one big task force look into all the issues raised in the fire. Instead … the council appointed Rick Mullen and […]

This is KBUU News – Day 43 – the headlines: =  Malibu may eliminate city fees for temporary trailers after the fire. =  Calfire issues a report on how a firefighter was run over by a resident during the fire. =  Two Edison lineworkers injured yesterday in the San Fernando Valley … a pole collapsed. […]

Newspapers across the state are writing articles about the failure of Southern California Edison to have followed the law in terms of preparing for wildfires. And the problem sits at the California Public Utilities Commission … which has ignored for two years a law that requires power companies to publicly file their plans to reduce […]

Cal Fire has released a report into the near-death of a firefighter …. in the mountains west of Malibu … when a resident drove over him. A fire strike team  made up of five fire trucks from Washington state was assigned to work in the mountains of eastern Ventura County. It was on Day Six […]

How much will it cost to get city permits to rebuild a burned out house?? And how much will it cost to place at temporary trailer on a lot during the rebuilding process? Those questions are in play as the Malibu city council goes into session at 3 o’clock this afternoon …. It’s a special […]

This is KBUU News – Day 39 of the fire …. the headlines: =   Malibu will form a task force  … to investigate what went wrong in the fire. =  And the city will need to come up with a plan … to handle hundreds of demoliton crews all working at the same time. […]

Flash floods and debris flows are going to be a constant concern when ever it rains in Malibu for the next three years. That’s the bleak assessment from the head of the Los Angeles County public works department … delivered at the  LA county meeting held yesterday … at Pepperdine … for residents to learn […]

Malibu is also going to have to decide whether to join a countywide fire debris removal program. There are several items in play here. First … the county is going around already to look for and remove hazardous material. After that … each landowner has two options for mandatory debris removal. The first … a state […]