Malibu California

This is KBUU News – Day 353 – the Thursday Headlines: = Power out in the Paradise Cove area … no idea from Edison when it will come back. = Signals are out at four places on P C H … but generators are here to keep the water pressure is up. = The peak […]

=    Passersby just put out a fire … power lines fell and sparked the brush … on Mulholland. =    A monster Santa Ana bears down on Southern California. =    Winds will be in the 50 mile per hour range tonight on the beaches … up to 80 in the mountains. =   […]

Malibu will move to 100 percent renewable electricity. The city council last night voted to shift the default option for every electric customer in the city … to a 100 percent green electricity supply. The cost will be about 8 percent more than the current power rates. But customers will have ample opportunities to decide […]

Malibu will regulate overnight rentals … by banning overnight rentals owned by outside parties. The city council voted last night to adopt the same type of regulations that already exist in Santa Monica … with a Malibu twist. The decision came after more than two hours of testimony … mostly … criticism of the city’s […]

LA county sheriff”s officials failed to notify Malibu city officials about the Sepulveda Pass fire as it broke out in the middle of the night … and city officials say that lead to a delay in official response and notifications.  The fire broke out about 1:45 yesterday morning (Monday Oct 28). City staff were not […]

Passersby put out a small brushfire caused by Southern California Edison power lines, which fell along Mulholland Hwy east of Malibu canyon-Las Virgenes Road. At first  … more than 500 homes lost power in the central Santa Monica Mountains. That was later revised downward to 161 homes powerless at 8 this morning. The fire broke […]

=  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 […]