Evacuation notices were issued for several hundred homes in Malibu Monday, Jan. 14, with mandatory evacuations beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15.

It has been two months since the Woolsey Fire struck Malibu, and the impact is still visible on hundreds of properties, as Los Angeles County works toward getting contractors on-site to remove debris.

Justin Lapinski was out there hustling. The Carpinteria players he was guarding, more often than not, had several inches on him, but Lapinski spent most of Friday, Jan. 11, outrunning them and swiping at the ball for steals.

Diverse digital photographer, renowned architect, insightful author, improvisational dancer, renaissance group singer, tireless jogger and even top-ranked, competitive masters springboard diver — amazingly, all of those titles describe Malibu’s Doug Rucker.

Displaced by the fires and appalled by the Thousand Oaks Borderline shooting, Malibu locals and Milwaukee Brewers Ryan Braun and Christian Yelich, Major League Baseball free agent Mike Moustakas and LA Rams quarterback Jared Goff brainstormed a way to help victims of the tragedies.