Frustrated Malibu residents aired their grievances about Southern California Edison's public safety power shutoff (PSPS) during a meeting with the utility company on Tuesday.

City officials and residents claim the power shutoffs stall the community by interrupting work and school. Malibu said in 2024 it had three times more outages than other SCE cities. They also claimed that the community has to wait more than three days to have their power restored, compared to the average of three hours for other cities.

"It doesn't happen in Africa," one resident said during the meeting. "It doesn't happen in Central America. It doesn't happen in the poorest countries in the world — in Southeast Asia, this doesn't happen — so it shouldn't happen here."

SoCal Edison said the power shutoffs happened

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