County Reviews Woolsey After-Action Report

The Malibu Times
Beginning the moment the Woolsey Fire leaped over the Ventura (101) Freeway before dawn on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, Malibu came face to face with a stream of disappointments, harsh realities and bad luck—extreme weather, poor communication, failures of preparation and lack of resources chief among them. Now, those realities are being codified ...
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Rattlesnakes have had a busy year. Same for the people who catch them for a living

Los Angeles Times on MSN.com
Bo Slyapich seeks what no one else wants to find. On a recent morning, he waded into grass so high and so dense his legs disappeared from view. He crouched low and then lay on his stomach as he scoured the backyard of a house above Pacific Coast Highway. The homeowner looked on from a safe distance. Luna, the family dog, barked as Slyapich ...
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John Cena donates $500,000 to help first responders fighting California wildfires

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The star, who plays a firefighter in his upcoming film "Playing with Fire," lauded the efforts of crews battling the blazes in California. In the tweeted video ... John Cena donates $500,000 to help first responders The worst movies of 2019 Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse is available to rent on Airbnb Cena posted the tweet on National First ...
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Roundup: Dangerous air pollution poses additional threat amid wildfires in California

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With the most stringent vehicle emission standards of any state in the nation, residents of California were able to enjoy cleaner air than most parts ... sending over 10,000 Santa Monica and Malibu students home, said district school officials. More than a dozen schools were closed in Los Angeles Unified School District Tuesday as well, plus ...
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Southern California Edison says it may have sparked deadly 2018 Woolsey Fire

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Southern California Edison says it's likely its equipment caused a wildfire last year that killed three people and destroyed more than 1,600 homes and other buildings. The Woolsey Fire in November burned from north of Los Angeles south through Malibu to the sea. In its quarterly earnings report released Tuesday ...
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Wind gusts reach hurricane force as wildfires torch Southern California

KCCI Des Moines
"California's biggest fire is far from containedNorth of the San Francisco Bay ... Hurricane-force wind gusts of 74 mph were also reported Wednesday at a weather station in the mountains outside Malibu, according to the National Weather Service. Dozens of stations across southern parts of the state reported gusts of more than 50 mph, with ...
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Two big California wildfires erupted. Now L.A. and the Bay Area are breathing the smoke

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More than 10,000 students across the Santa Monica and Malibu areas were forced to stay home Monday after being alerted about 6:30 a.m. that all schools in their district would be closed because of the Getty fire. District officials said wildfire smoke was one of several reasons they closed all 16 of their schools, even those far from any direct ...
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Omaha Beach enters Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile with something to prove

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He just does it so nice. … Whatever he does won’t surprise me because he’s that good.” After the Breeders’ Cup, Mandella has targeted Omaha Beach for the Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita, a seven-furlong race on Dec. 26, to be followed by the 1 1/8-mile, $9-million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 25 at Gulfstream Park. “He’s set to go to ...
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Inside the battle to save the Reagan Library as fire laid siege to landmark

Los Angeles Times
He delivered a half-hour speech praising the heroic efforts of the fire crews who had battled the firestorms earlier that year. Years earlier, the Reagan family had lost their ranch in Malibu to fire, which the president’s daughter, Maureen, mentioned to visitors. “We live in a place with unique terrain that’s continually touched by fire ...
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