Malibu California

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  Fire on Malibu Road .. it was a minor one. =  PCB tests are late … school won’t reopen at maliubu High til Wednesday. =  The Bel Air Bay Club is asking Coastal to rebuild its jetties … more than 500 tons of rocks will be trucked […]

The Bel Air Bay Club is going before the California Coastal Commission this week … to rebuild its two rock jetties. The rocks are technically called groins … they were built in 1947 to capture sand at the private beach, just down the coast from Malibu. About 93 tons of rock that have been knocked […]

Another 35 houses in Malibu were inspected and cleared of hazmat on Friday. State and federal inspectors are entering burned out properties … one by one … and looking for materials that cannot be taken to the landfill. Things like melted lead batteries … cans on paint that made it through the inferno … SWEPT […]

Some excitement this morning on Malibu Road. A garbage can caught fire … next to a house at 24858 Malibu Road. The fire spread to a fenceline … and then the side of the house. The first arriving engine put out the fire. No cause has been determined, —— Tests for PCB contamination at Malibu […]

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 […]