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Rebuilding Malibu With Fire-Safe Design, One Home At A Time
"We look at foundations of houses that are burned down, and we assess what can be saved, what can be reused" said Civil Engineer Joe Demers.
September 26, 2025
One Malibu homeowner is determined to make her house "extra strong" as she rebuilds from the Palisades Fire – the second wildfire to destroy her family property.
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Shelley Pederson-Cox said the Malibu property has been in her family for four generations, and it already burned to the ground once before, in the 1993 Old Topanga wildfire.
"That was my house of sticks, the next house was my house of whatever, stronger, this is going to be my house of extra strong everything," Pederson-Cox said.
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