Calabasas, CA - A driver swerved to avoid an animal while driving on Stunt Road near Mulholland Highway tonight in an unincorporated area between Calabasas and Malibu. The car went over a cliff and fell to the bottom of a ravine about 200 feet below at 7:38 p.m. Members of the Malibu Search and Rescue team along with fire paramedics mad...

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Tuesday’s news about the rescue of six hikers and a dog in the Zuma Trail area provided an example of local search and rescue work at its best. When someone is known to be in a specific area in an established time frame, crews not only will nearly always find their subjects but can bring them out of the toughest circumstances swiftly and safely. Th...

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MALIBU -- Rescue crews have found a pair of missing hikers in the mountains above Malibu along with four other people who apparently weren't even reported missing. Fredrik Hassel and Brooke Hall were reported missing around midnight after their roommates grew concerned when they didn't return home. The couple, in their 20s, set out on Backbone Tr...

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The Malibu Search & Rescue (MSAR) Team has announced a personal gift from Alex von Furstenberg which has financed the purchase of rescue equipment critical to their efforts. Alex von Furstenberg’s $38,500 gift has enabled a complete outfitting of MSAR’s lead search vehicle.  Kevin Ryan, a 30-year member of the Team, said “This contri...

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A woman was hospitalized Sunday after her minivan went off the side of Malibu Canyon Road and plummeted 300 feet down an embankment, authorities said.

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More than 300 volunteers on foot, horseback and all-terrain vehicles joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department today to scour the Malibu Canyon area for traces of Mitrice Richardson, who has been missing for nearly four months. Sheriff's officials described the search as among the largest ever conducted by the department, taking in an 18-...

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A vehicle flew 300 feet down the side of Malibu Canyon Road at about 7:20 a.m. Firefighters expected the worst as they responded to the accident two miles north of Pacific Coast Highway, and even called for air rescue. The car flipped several times as it went down the cliff, but the driver suffered only minor injuries.

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