Malibu California

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 […]

Longtime Malibu resident Andy Cohen has died. Cohen … a resident of western Malibu … was a member of the city Public Safety Commission. There .. he worked tirelessly behind the scenes … improving the lives of Malibu residents. Andy Cohen dug into his own checkbook to rent equipments… and spent months organizing … last […]

=   Malibu is furious that its local top cop has been yanked out … and put in a desk job. =   Jennifer Seetoo is transferred to an office job … was she too ambitious for the sheriff downtown? =   Slight shaking in Malibu … from an overnight earthquake in Compton. =   […]

There is yet another delay in the city reaction to the traffic and zoning problems at the Nobu restaurant and Soho House club. Over and over again … the popular two oceanfront businesses have been accused by city staff of violating their coastal use permits. Parking violations …. valets and delivery trucks in the street […]

The reassignment of the popular and effective sheriff’s lieutenant who headed up law enforcement for the city of Malibu has people saying they are shocked and very angry. Lieutenant Jennifer Seetoo has been transferred to a desk job. City Hall officials say they were shocked and blindsided by the move … by L A County […]

=    More turmoil at the sheriff’s department … the Malibu liaison is transferred out … again. =    Jennifer Seetoo had built strong community bonds … over just 51 weeks out here. =    More santa Anas coming this weekend … no Malibu blackout alerts … yet. =    Edison is picking uo the […]

Here we go again. Gusty mountain winds from the north are expected to increase this afternoon and increase all weekend. The strongest winds will be tonight into early Friday … and Saturday night into Sunday. Peak gusts … 30 miles an hour. No blackouts predicted for Malibu. But it will be hot … high temperatures […]

After almost exactly one year in the job … Lieutenant Jennifer Seetoo has been bounced out of the L A County sheriff’s office Malibu Lost Hills Station. And she is not happy about it. Without explanation … in fact … without answering the phone … the L A County sheriff ’s office has moved Seetoo […]