Malibu California

California property owners are having a hard time renewing their fire insurance policies. The Wall Street Journal reports insurance companies are canceling some policies and refusing to sell new ones … or applying for rate increases … in fire risk areas. Large insurers have filed to raise home-insurance rates . in the past six months. […]

Cal Recycle crews have already substantially ripped down more than a dozen houses in the Point Dume and Malibu High School area. Fire debris removal under the California state-sponsored program began last week at 13 properties within city limits … plus three outside the city limits. Preliminary work … like knocking down chimneys and site […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =   A half inch of rain … but no mud … tomorrow morning. =   Malibu High’s softball and baseball trams win their first victories … the district promises to get mud off their fields. =    99 percent of the hazmat stuff has been removed form […]

LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl has also been getting an earful on bitter experiences caused by the county government during the Woolsey Fire. TV opictures of boats unloading emergency supplies … desperately needed as malibu residents battled flames with garden hoses ,,, have triggered massive criticism of the evacuation roadblocks. The city of Malibu has […]

State regulators are cracking down on trash in Malibu Creek … Malibu Lagoon … and the ocean. Revised regulations have been approved by the Regional Water Quality Control Board for the creek … which starts in Ventura County way north of the 101 and ends at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach. Current levels of trash in Malibu […]

A relatively weak storm system is going to arrive in Malibu early tomorrow morning. The National Weather Service says we can expect a 3 to 6 hour period of steady rain early in the morning … turning scattered showers by mid morning across Los Angeles County. We’ll get a brief period of south winds as […]

First it was a fire that destroyed their homes … then a loss of five weeks of school. Now … kids at Malibu High School are dealing with the loss of their home fields. The school’s athletics fields are drowning in mud …. ash and rocks … washing onto the grass and tennis courts. The […]

This is KBUU News – Day 91- The Headlines: =  Another black ice crash this morning on Kanan Dume at tunnel 2. =  Flood prediction maps are being finalized by city engineers … and they do not look good. =  New debris basins may be constructed above Cuthbert … but Malibu West is a worry. […]

Southern California Edison has unveiled details of its 582 million dollar plan to harden its overhead poles and wires … against causing fires. And the plan says Edison will study … but not commit to  … undergrounding some of its power lines as a preventative measure. The 150 page plan was unveiled yesterday … it […]

Demolition has begin in earnest on Point Dume and east of Malibu High School … as county crews and contractors begin ripping out fire wreckage. Large lines of trucks were staging on Busch Drive yesterday … and truck drivers were beign instructed in how to properly apply a “burrito-wrap” around wreckage before it is carted […]