The KBUU Newswire

The spectre of one tenth of Malibu’s houses burned down … loomed heavily over Malibu city council chambers last night … as a new mayor and city council were sworn in. There was more than an hour of ceremonial proclamations and small gifts lavished by people outside Malibu on the two departing city council members […]

LA County’s new sheriff says the performance of top commanders at the Malibu Lost Hill Sheriff Station during the recent fire … and during the murder investigation last summer in Malibu Canyon … may get them fired. Malibu residents are generally furious with the hard-line tactics taken by the sheriffs office during the fire emergency […]

Los Angeles fire chief Daryl Osby says the department will not allow some houses in Malibu to be rebuilt. The chief says state fire codes will not be waived if a house cannot meet newer fire code requirements. NEWSCART OSBY QQQ UNABLE TO BUILD. They are going to have to meet current code. That means […]

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 […]