A shelter-in-place order for Pepperdine University is in effect until daylight Tuesday as a result of the Franklin Fire in ...

So did Mark Hammill and Cher. But some 3,000 students at Pepperdine University were told to stay put, even as wildfire flames raged toward their campus. With some 20,000 Malibu residents ordered ...

Pepperdine has historically used the shelter-in-place model, according to Gash. With a "strong presence on campus" from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, students are moved to campus buildings ...

Video posted on Pepperdine Graphic Media showed students pacing inside a campus building as they watched flames lash the trees outside. Some students on the campus questioned the university’s ...

The private research California university that overlooks the Pacific Coast Highway and Malibu canceled classes for one day due to the Franklin Fire. Pepperdine University students woke up to an ...

University officials said the 830-acre campus was designed in the 1960s with fire safety in mind due to the frequency of wildfires in the area. Pepperdine’s Executive Vice President Phil Philips ...

But rather than run away from the impending blaze, some 3,000 students at Pepperdine University headed toward two buildings at the heart of the 830-acre (336 hectare) campus in coastal Malibu ...

The wildfire policy was first used by Pepperdine in 1993, former university president Andrew Benton told the student-run campus newspaper, the Pepperdine Graphic, in the days following the Woolsey ...

During the early morning hours of December 10, Pepperdine’s campus tweeted that the university was in its “shelter-in-place protocol.” “All community members on the Malibu campus are ...

As the Franklin fire raged across Malibu in the early hours on Tuesday morning, officials at Pepperdine University urged students and faculty to remain on campus, inside the university’s fire ...