The KBUU Newswire

Santa Monica city officials are finding housing for about 10 to 15 families from Malibu … families of modest financial means. This is according to an article in the Santa Moncia Daily Press. The Community Corporation of Santa Monica is finding affordable housing for the working class families.  The program is targeting families from Malibu […]

Inspectors are supposed to begin fanning out over Western Los Angeles County today … looking at 1600 destroyed houses and thousands of damaged structures. But the issue of him when demolition permits will begin to start flowing is still a matter of confusion and interagency wrangling. Not a pretty picture … but that’s what is […]

This is KBUU News – Day 22 of the fire – the headlines: =  No additional mudflows overnight. =  Two days of sun now … but rain may arrive tomorrow. =  The slop at Cuthbert at Phillip has been bulldozed away … for now. =  Webster and Pepperdine both are in session today … after […]

Yards and yards of muddy soup poured out of the hillside last night… causing the city of malibu to hit the warning horns and order evacuation of the area. Good call. The series of rain squalls that swept across Malibu yesterday left the hillside unstable … liquid soup quickly clogged storm drains … and goo […]

The annual free Household Hazardous Waste & E-Waste Recycling Roundup for Malibu area residents is tomorrow … Saturday. This is the annual event to get rid of household hazardous waste … and this year … it’s important to remember that this is -NOT- for fire debris. Things like antifreeze, unused pharmaceuticals, car batteries, used motor […]

STOKE FEST …. is being set up for this Saturday at Zuma beach. It’s a day of healing .. surfing … friendship … aloha… music and laughter. The idea … get old unused surfboards and wetsuits out of garages and closets. Get them into hands of kids and adults who lost theirs in the fire. […]

The weather forecast for Santa Monica tonight is snow. It will be snowing on the Third Street Promenade tonight when the City of Santa Monica rings in the holiday season with the lighting of the official Christmas tree this evening. The ceremony takes place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the 1200 block near […]

This is KBUU News for Day 20 after the fire – the headlines: =   Rain coming … at least 3/4 of an inch … but no mudflows expected. =   Removing debris will not happen anytime soon. =   The state hazmat investigators have not even started to check Malibu yet. =   Private […]

Clearing debris from Malibu is not going to start soon.  Huge delays … as the state has not even begun to inspect for hazmat stuff … banned from the dump.  The state Department of Toxic Substance Control has not even begun inspecting the 1600 houses destroyed by fire in Malibu and in the Conejo Valley. […]

The Los Angeles Times has an article today about private firefighting companies … hired by insurance companies to put out fires only at those houses insured by sponsor companies. Such private firefighting efforts are criticized by some public firefighters …. for not coordinating their efforts and for becoming liabilities. Public firefighters say they have to […]