Posted on 01/08/2007 5:38:47 PM PST by al baby
Live thread House destroyed more to folow
That's some big fire!
Is it near any of these famous Malibu residents?
Barbra Streisand, Cher, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, Tom Hanks, Olivia Newton John, Martin Sheen and Britney Spears.
i was in the hills above there sat and sun it was the windiest i had seen up there
7 homes gone as per talking head
Santa Ana winds again right?
.......so Carson is smokin ?.........:)
RIP
Also...
http://ktla.trb.com/
Malibu's pretty southern.
I'm going to be joining my soCal brethren pretty soon, and leaving noCal....
Seeing Stars: Where the Stars Live
along Pacific Coast Highway, north of Santa Monica.
(310) 706-1310 or (310) 456-9025
If there is one spot in Southern California that might surpass Beverly Hills in the number of movie stars' homes, it is Malibu.
Robert Redford, Mel Gibson, Barbra Streisand, Richard Gere, Sally Field and Whoopi Goldberg (to name just a few) all own homes along the exclusive Malibu shore.
This star-studded coastline also has an interesting history.
From the late 1800's to 1938, Malibu was the exclusive property of a single wealthy family, that of Frederick & May Rindge, Massachusetts millionaires who had founded Union Oil and Southern California Edison. They owned the entire 27-mile-long Malibu coastline, and they kept the rest of the world at bay with chained gates and with armed guards patrolling on horseback through the hills.
The Malibu Colony became a favorite of movie stars when the then-remote area was finally opened up to the public for the first time in 1929. The widowed May Rindge encountered money problems, and was forced to invite a few wealthy celebrities in to build vacation homes on her private Malibu beach. She expected this to be a temporary arrangement, of course - the stars were allowed to rent the land, but not to own it.
The small cloister of Hollywood celebrities took root in the early 1930's with stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, Clara Bow, Ronald Coleman and Gloria Swanson putting up "shacks" at their new "colony" at the shore.
In the late 1930's, Mrs. Rindge finally decided to allow Malibu residents to buy their properties, and the Malibu Colony grew at an even faster rate.
Like Mrs. Rindge, Hollywood celebrities prize their privacy, and the Colony offered not only protection from the prying stares of the curious public, but also a beautiful ocean view and a sandy beach as a front yard. With the back of their homes forming an invincible wall along Pacific Coast Highway, and the front of their homes mere yards from the vast Pacific Ocean, the Malibu Colony is about as private as you can get. There's a guarded gate at the entrance to keep out sightseers, and there's even a police station at the Colony's west end.
A host of stars now make Malibu their home. "Colonyites" (as they call themselves) have included Tom Hanks (who used to live at 23414 Malibu Colony Dr.), Linda Ronstadt (38 Malibu Colony Rd.), Larry Hagman (23730 Malibu Colony Rd.), Jeff Bridges (2882 Hume Rd), Howie Mandell (23456 Malibu Colony Rd.), Cicely Tyson, Bruce Dern (23430 Malibu Colony Rd), Mel Brooks (23868 Malibu Rd),Tatum O'Neal, Rob Reiner, Sting, Bill Murray, Roma Downey & Rachel Ward, to name just a few who live either in the Colony or along adjacent Malibu Road. Charles Bronson (3210 Retreat Court), Rod Steiger and George C. Scott (3211 Retreat Ct.) live nearby.
It is Santa Ana winds this time of the year folks where majority they get the fires
That's what it says....
Whoops.........forgot the link:
http://www.seeing-stars.com/live/Malibu.shtml
Three water-dropping helicopters and over 100 firefighters on scene.
So far, the fire has not spread. It is confined to the area of the 3 homes.
But this fire is quite intense at the moment.
Yikes! I hope they get control of that fire soon! Glad it's blowing towards the ocean and not inland, but... there are homes along the ocean in Malibu!
It sure looks bad, doesn't it?
BREAKING--Just over the radio--At least 2 houses have burned.
Fire is small but growing rapidly--very high winds and extremely low humidity coupled with the fact that water dropping aircraft will be grounded soon due to darkness will probably mean this fire will get much larger...
Actually Howlin reason they build it because jews were not allow in Beverly Hills so kinda founded on anti semtric history on that
I hear that long time ago
I have been to Malibu and understand it is in SoCal. However, my point is that only Democrats live in Malibu.
It's an awful sight, those homes fully engulfed in flames.
It looks like the firefighters are starting to get the upper hand on this one.
This story (link below) indicates "4 structures" have been burned and that winds were blowing at 21 mph when the fire started an hour ago.
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