Category: My Story

George Rebane (continued from Part I: Our House Burns, concluded in Part III: Lessons Learned) The morning after in Simi Valley found us at our friends Chuck and Lois’ house eating breakfast and talking about what we would find when we returned to Saddle Peak Road and how we would rebuild.  The Malibu fire was…

George Rebane We lived our entire adult lives in SoCal; Jo Ann was born in Los Angeles where I arrived as a teenager.  The 25 years before we moved here in 2002 were spent on Saddle Peak Road on the crest line of the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu.  With sweeping one hundred-plus mile views…