Commentary: My Malibu house made it through the fire. I nearly didn't
My phone has been blowing up - perhaps a poor choice of words in this context - dinging and donging with calls, texts, emails, direct messages.
How did you do it? Where can I get a fire pump? What's the name of that chemical?
The number of those asking for my firefighting tips is nearly as long as the list of friends needing a place to live. In my Malibu Park neighborhood, hundreds of homes were destroyed. Mine is one of the few left standing.
On Nov. 9, my wife, Gardia, was up at 6 a.m. worried about the extreme Santa
