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This is KBUU News – Day 27 of the fire: =  Fury … anger … disgust. =  Hard to underplay the feelings in Malibu about its local government … after the complete collapse of usable government services during the fire. =  those are the sentiments of Malibu … hurled by an overflow crowd last night. […]

In Los Angeles yesterday … the county Board of Supervisors met … and says that there is a new reality about the Los Angeles County fire department. And they have approved a 4.5 million dollar public relations program to educate the public about it. The Los Angeles Times reports that the supervisors acknowledge there is […]

Why was Malibu left to burn? The first explanation from the fire department did not put out the local firestorm of criticism .  The assistant fire chief for western L A County last night gave the first official explanation of what went wrong on November 9th. Last night … Chief Williams said Malibu was done […]

Two overflow rooms could not contain the anger last night at city hall … The biggest crowd in Malibu city history … most of them furious with the performance by government agencies during the worst fire disaster in Los Angeles County history. Incompetent … nonresponsive … amateurs … a joke. Invectives were hurled …. In […]

This is KBUU News – it’s Day 26 of the fire: =   Rain tonight … but apparently not much. =   Anger … pain and fury … expected from the public at the Malibu City Council tonight. =   The city will declare a local emergency … and likely override the LCP to allow […]

Southern California Edison Company looks to be in financial trouble. The rating outlook for its parent company downgraded by Moody’s Investor Service …. a result of two disastrous fires. The stock rating has gone from stable to negative. This will make it more expensive for the company to borrow money at a time that it […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is going to go to federal court this month to get permission to stop removing PCB contamination from buildings that are now scheduled to be torn down. Several years ago … the district was ordered by a federal judge remove the PCB from all classrooms by the end of […]

The L.A. County Fire Department began sending hazmat inspection teams out yesterday. LA County Fire is working alongside teams from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). The trams are assessing and removing household hazardous waste … from properties burned by the Woolsey Fire. The county fire […]

Malibu’s city council will meet tonight … expect a huge uproar. Many Malibu residents are seething with anger over the perceived mishandling of the fire disaster. The massive traffic jam on P C H in the sudden evacuation. The lack of fire trucks in Malibu. The lack of reinforcements. And most of all … perhaps […]

This is KBUU News – Day 25 after the fire =   How much Malibu property value was just burned?  Try 1 point 6 billion dollars worth. =   Inspectors start fanning out today to give the OK to demolish fire wreckage. =   We have extensive details on how long it will take people […]