Malibu Fire News – Here are pictures and video of today’s 1,200-acre Malibu fire whipped by 60 mph winds that burned homes and businesses to the ground and forced thousands to flee the raging flames and heavy smoke.
Here’s a photo of the Malibu fire with flames leaping 30 feet in the air:
KTLA is reporting that Pepperdine University (see map below) has been evacuated as the two Malibu fires race downhill toward the Pacific Ocean.
Santa Ana winds clocked at 60 miles per hour spread the fire in two directions from its ignition point, which firefighters said was caused by downed power lines on Malibu Canyon Road about a half mile south of the tunnel.
Malibu wildfire smoke cloud hampers firefighters:
More than 100 fire engines are on the scene with helicopter and aerial tanker support, but the twin blazes are still out of control at 10:30 AM PST.
Area landmark Hodge Castle burns to the ground.
Hughes Labs building burns and collapses.
Just to the south of Pepperdine university, the Malibu Presbyterian Church caught fire at 8:40 a.m. and burned to the ground. Several houses on the south side of Malibu Canyon Road, overlooking the Malibu Civic Center, were also burning at 9:15 a.m.
Malibu fire video clip
Video keeps failing to load, probably due to excess server demand. Here’s the link to their live news feed: http://media.myfoxla.com/live/
Power in much of Malibu was out, and Pacific Coast Highway is closed between Kanan-Dume Road and Topanga Canyon Road.
Authorities may call for an evacuation of beachfront homes along the Pacific Coast Highway because the Santa Ana winds are causing the fire to leap across firebreaks and jump from rooftop to rooftop via windblown burning debris.
Malibu Fire Update:
The wildfire has leapt across the Pacific Coast Highway and exclusive beachfront homes are ablaze. There are now four separate fire locations and firefighters are desperately trying to save these multi-million dollar homes, but firefighting resources are stretched to the limit.
Here are pictures of the oceanfront homes burning:
Here’s an aerial closeup of the beachfront homes:
Celebrities already evacuated due to imminent fire danger include Titanic director James Cameron and singer Olivia Newton-John.
Others who live in that same area but have not been evacuated include Britney Spears, Jennifer Aniston, Sting, Bill Murray, Tatum O’Neal, Rob Reiner, Linda Ronstadt, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.
Here’s the latest map of Malibu wildfires burning:
The Malibu “Canyon fire” alone has burned over 1,200 acres!
Latest Update at 12:30 PM PST:
Malibu Colony, home to dozens of celebrities is now under a mandatory evacuation order.
This car caught in the Malibu fire burst into flames when the wildfire swept over it.
And that’s the latest news update on the Malibu fire.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I am a university student who was competing in a debate tournament at Pepperdine University this weekend, when I left last night, there was no sign of a fire. I woke up to a phone call this morning saying we could no longer hold elimination rounds this morning because there was a fire. I went from mentally preparing for the next day’s debates to thinking that the university is in inconceivable peril. Of all of the fire tragedies we have heard about over the years, any further damage caused by this fire that would be in addition to the damage already caused would be a tragedy a step above. Malibu and Pepperdine are the kinds of places that one places in the back of their mind as gorgeous and desirable. Lets hope nature has a different fate in mind.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
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October 21st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I live in a high fire area, The hills above LA, I love the place to. But at times I gotta ask, Is it worth it ?
Malibu can be dream land, or it can be a fire storm,
Hell of a wake up call. Or a wake up from hell.
Ron
October 21st, 2007 at 7:57 pm
The news coverage is very incomplete. They only need to provide actual maps of the area and the wind direction to see what is happening. They always show flames and it is almost impossible to know where that is on the map. Just one good map with the fires path and the wind direction would be useful.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I talked to a friend at 5pm today (Saturday) who teaches at Pepperdine. Evidently she didn’t know about the fire or evacuation until midday because power was out at her home. Thankfully she and her family are out safely. Whether they will have a home to return to in the hills near campus remains unknown.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:54 pm
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October 21st, 2007 at 9:32 pm
How about Malibu county mart? Is it safe?
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:26 am
it’s a pity America is burning, a lot of property and a number of lives lost to fire in the last couple of years. I say the last couple of years as we have been offering to assist with your wild fires in that period and surprisingly we have had only ONE reply to many attempted contacts to various US authorities.
Finally we are told, “IT ISN”T MADE IN AMERICA SO IT IS UNLIKELY THAT WE WILL USE IT”.
Sorry guys, we like our home in Australia.
Your recent tunnel fire!! Firefighters couldn’t approach the fire as temperatures were around 760degrees. I regularly walk into fires in excess of 1000 degrees celcius just to demonstrate Kilfire. An ordinary pair of overalls, a balaclava, gloves and sneakers with a hose down with Kilfire and I’m off to work IN THE FIRE.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Current fire info/maps.
http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/nfn.htm
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
Why don’t you show at regular interviews a map of the of the fire areas, using a street map to be accurate.
With friends in the area, we’d surely appreciate having concrete maps rather than scary pictures.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
the news coverage really is minimizing the tragedy unfolding before our eyes. I cannot believe our media is so lax with such an enormous story beyond belief. And we so need to truly know the path of these fires and also how to help our fellow citizens in need.
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
My biggest concern in this fire is that as the beachfront homes burn, big open gaps will be left between them allowing full beach access to the rif-raf (low to middle income people).
We have done our best to keep these lower class people out, and now we are exposed. it’s a good thing we are in a mandatory evacuation mode now. The last thing we need is a bunch of dirty faced tourist lookie-loos on our beautiful beaches while the houses are empty.
To all Malibu beachfront residents who have lost homes, build fences as soon as you can, please!
Concerned Malibu resident.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Are you kidding me…? THAT is what you are worried about? “Riff-Raff” on your beach!?!? With all of the homes being destroyed, peoples lives in danger…you are worried about “low to middle income people” on your beautiful beaches!?!? I know…I lived in Malibu for four years! It is one of my favorite places in the world…but that is completely insane, one of the most ignorant, inane, and soul-less comments I have ever heard…
Maybe you should spend a little more time worrying about your friend’s (if you have any) and neighbor’s well being and safety than your own class driven ideas about keeping the “riff raff” off of your beach. It is ideas and class conciousness like yours that are the absolute epitomy of the disgusting dehuminization that can accompany the accumulation of too much wealth. It is so depressing that I almost despair when I learn that someone can be so detached from the suffering of their fellow human beings as to first address the need for “fences” around the DESTROYED DREAMS of their fellow man. Shame on you and on a society which breeds such soul less, selfish, and inhumane participants. Shame.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 am
I think posting #12 from Malibu Ken is what’s known as sarcasm…it’s a joke. These are stressful, scary and sad times for many folks and humor is a natural response.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:37 am
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October 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 am
One guy hit the nail on the head. He siad that the fire itself is not scary but the chaos and irratic people are! Living on rambla Pacifico myself, we had plenty of time to evacuate. 48 hours plus. Nevertheless, neighbours were running around like headless chickens. In the end we all had to leave our homes at the same time and leave it to the able firefighters. There is always two ways to deal with information. Neither effect the end result but it’s astounding to see people’s actions. More frightening than the fire. On that note, i hope our house is still standing…
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 am
I grew up in Malibu, but now I live in Missoula, Montana. Montanans are always complaining about all of the “out of staters”! All the nasty people moving up here could be from anywhere, but the Montana natives all say “those damn Californians!” It’s comments like the “riff raff” one above that make me soooo glad I DO NOT live in California any more!! Your horrible idea of morals makes other states HATE Californians!!!
I”ll pray for all my old friends & neighbors while you pray for your beaches…
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:14 am
Map Via Los Angeles Times Story.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-ex-winds22oct22,0,7198838.story
By the way, I guess I was one of those “Riff-Raff” as I
used to work in the hills of Point Dume.
Advice-
“DONT FEED THE TROLL”, seems its some low-life
trying get some blood boiling.
Ken YOU ARE the riff raff . . . just like me.
God be with you all out there. Take care and be safe.
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:10 am
Actually…Malibu Ken is probably just a bored teenager with lots of time on his hands….trying to stir emotions. Time for him to get a job and actually learn what it is to work for a buck. Or…if he is actually a homeowner of a beachfront home….you can always pray that his insurance policy ran out! Sounds like the one thing running rampant in his home is….ignorance!
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:50 am
Wow, what a self absorbed asshole this Malibu Ken is! I lived in LA and worked in the industry for cose to 5 years and it is people and attitudes like HIM, which made me want to leave!! Souless and it’s all about “me, me me”! I am very sad for this man that he even HAS thoughts of this nature and let’s all pray or send him thoughtsand/or a higher power that he can have a wake up call of some sort to get these kind of Bigoted thoughts out of his head and any other Malibu people that think like that. You know, there are other people and life outside of your precious Malibu. I am surprised that he even feels this way…as i always felt and experienced Malibu as such a nice place “away” from the rat race where people can feel calm, private and themselves…instead of angry, racist and a total pig. Oh well, i guess there are sad people in the world …
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Right on LA s**hole! That’s what I meant, rats. Not riff-raff.
As you may well know, we have been making it harder and harder for those people to get on our beaches for many years.
After all we pay high prices for security to keep people from planting their Kmart towels on our sand and making themselves comfortable.
How else can we enjoy our privacy away from the celebrity hounds.
This fire is opening gaps in our mansion fortress!
Please people, let’s not fight, let’s unite, against the rats.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
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October 23rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Anyone know the status of the area just northwest of Pepperdine in the Coral canyon Road area. My inlaws live there and we cant tell if the fire has reached the area. They left yesterday so they are safe.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:15 pm
you people that think malibu ken was being serious, are you really that easily fooled?
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Malibu Ken,
I totally sympathize with you. The damn riff-raff are a constant pain out here in our island sanctuary. We pay millions of dollars for our beautiful ocean views, and now they have the gall to try and install ugly windmill turbines in Nantucket Sound to generate “clean energy.” Well we’re not about to let that happen and we’re all letting our elected officials know that their campaign funds will be drying up real soon if they even think about OKing that project. If we need more energy in Massachusetts we should build an oil or coal plant in someplace where our views won’t be ruined, — like Quincy or Medford. Our next goal out here on the islands is to ban lookie-lou middle class tourists altogether by requiring a photo ID check to make sure only residents and approved servants/workers can travel here on the ferry. Believe me, they have this kind of system perfected in Saudi Arabia, and we can do it here too.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
how long will ashes and the smoke be out and done with at our shool we cant go outside because of this. well im done have anice day
October 24th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Malibu Ken’s comments are hilarious! Those who fail to get his sarcasm are a testament to the US declining educational system.
Many Malibu beachfront residents have worked for years to deny the public access to public beaches. Buy a home abutting public property, and then whine that the public actually tries to use it. See http://www.californiacoastaltrail.info/cms/pages/trail/price.html
Oh well, at least they have advanced from threatening “trespassers” with physical violence themselves (as I was threatened in 1981) to hiring “security guards” to do it for them.
Let them eat cake!
October 24th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Although I’m also surprised that Malibu Ken is being taken seriously, I suppose it’s a good sign that people get upset with his (purported) views. I have to wonder, though, whether the same people don’t happily put up with the actual elitism rampant in Los Angeles. Somehow extreme narcissism (or in the case of Britney, borderline personality behavior) has become socially acceptable when it comes from a real live celebrity or fabulously wealthy people. The world rewards bad behavior, which is undoubtedly why it’s rampant. Anybody with a two-year-old knows that if you indulge it, it will only get worse.
October 24th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I think that Malibu Ken is serious in his comments. The problem is that he thinks that when you buy a home in Malibu that you are buying some sort of ownership to a “public beach”. He is assuming that everyone wanting to use the beach is there to watch celebs. I can’t think of anything more boring.
He is saying that rif-rafs are low to middle income people….he seems to think that class has something to do with income….problem is…you can’t change crass to class with money……Malibu Ken is living proof!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I was in Malibu during the recent fire.I was very surprised at the lack of actual news that the people had.I was watching on channel 9,and could figure out where the fire was and what direction it was going.Anyone depending on the local cable was out of luck,and a lot of folks couldn’t get the internet.There could have been a lot more communication from the city officials.Even right here,people are more concerned with Malibu Ken than answering the question about Coral Canyon.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Attention all riff-raff in Malibu,
Don’t waste your time in Malibu. Come to Venice instead. Here, the riff-raff rule. We don’t have LA A**holes. We have beach babes, lots of pot, and various other mind-altering drugs that can’t hurt your chances of getting laid. Our beach is wide-open to the public, and as a result, our beaches are much nicer than the ones in Malibu. In Malibu, the beach is boring. Sure, you got a few good surf breaks, but you don’t have to dodge needles while walking on the beach. You don’t have to steer away from floating beer bottles while hangin’ ten. The challenge is all gone in Malibu. Who wants that?
November 25th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Latest Malibu fire 11-24-2007:
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November 25th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
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November 30th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
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December 9th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
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December 9th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Clearly Malibu Ken is not really from Malibu, or he has not lived there long, or he stays at his “buddies” house and thinks he’s a local. Real locals in Malibu don’t exude this sort of bigotry.