Malibu California

County crews have gone to about half of the destroyed houses in western L-A County …. to remove hazmat materials and issue yellow placards. L A County fire reports 650 houses have been swept so far. 650 done … 536 to go … and that’s the countywide total … including the Agiura and Calabasas fire […]

The deadline has been extended for business owners … self-employed individuals or workers who have lost income due to the Woolsey Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The deadline was last week The new deadline now is March 15th. Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance benefits are temporary unemployment benefits. They go to people whose job […]

This is KBUU News – Day 44 – The Headlines: =   Not one … not two … but several task forces to investigate what went wrong in the fire. =   Malibu will join the countywide debris removal program … just don’t call it free. =   Strong support for the city manager … […]

Malibu’s school superintendent is defending the district in public … for asking a federal court judge for five more years to clwean up miniscule amounts of PCB sealed up in walls and floors at Malibu High School. Ben Drati is reacting to criticism from some parents … They are unhappy with the district’s request for […]

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 […]