After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

It may have taken the death of mountain lion P-47 to do it. But legislation backed by Poison Free Malibu … aimed at banning rat poison on a statewide basis … passed the California Assembly by a 50 to 16 vote. It needed 41 votes. Bu the high profile death of the big cougar may […]

The owners of the Malibu Beach Inn are laying the groundwork for a lawsuit against the city of Malibu … to force acceptance of their plan to put their parking lot across PCH and convert the highway into a part of their business. They have filed an appeal to the city council … seeking to […]

60º and cloudy again this morning … light traffic on PCH at 7:35. This is KBUU News – Day 182 – the Tuesday Headlines: = Malibu hits the six month mark after the fire … = Three quarters of the fire destroyed houses on the state list have been removed. = Edison crews chopping trees […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  The city reaches a deal with Southern California Edison over tree trimming. =  300 trees on Bonsall Drive will get trimmed starting Wednesday. =  Fire inspectors this year will concentrate on landscaping … as well as brush. =  Sober living houses flee from Malibu … go over […]

Malibu High School will drop its regular football team … and move to 8-player football this fall. The school announced last week that the lack of a youth football program in Malibu means there is no feeder program to the high school squad. That … plus the fact that surfing is a much more popular […]

Sober living houses have fled Malibu and infested neighborhoods over the hill … a largely unseen phenomenon that is an apparent consequence of the Woolsey fire. The Calabasas enterprise newspaper reports that high-end rehab centers have relocated in large numbers to Woodland Hills … Calabasas and Agoura Hills. The newspaper reports clusters of sober living […]

Los Angeles county firefighters say this years brush clearance inspections will be different. Instead of concentrating on native vegetation in the hills next to houses… The department warned in a letter sent last week that ornamental vegetation … trees and plants intentionally planted by homeowners … can be a major fire hazard. Embers from ornamental […]

Tree trimmers will arrive in Zuma Canyon on Wednesday … after the power company and the city have reached an agreement that severe hacking will not happen. Over the weekend … the city released terms of an agreement that it has struck with Southern California Edison. The power company had announced plans to cut 5 […]

= The city reaches a deal with Southern California Edison over tree trimming. = 300 trees on Bonsall Drive will get trimmed starting Wednesday. = Fire inspectors this year will concentrate on landscaping … as well as brush. = Sober living houses flee from Malibu … go over the hill. = Malibu High’s football team […]

This is KBUU News – Day 178 – the Friday Headlines: =   L A County moves quietly to add campgrounds to the Santa Monica Mountains. =   Point Dume school may not have a name … but it has a new principal. =   Whole Foods market opens in five weeks … the new […]