Overview
- The sinkhole formed on Sept. 8 and has grown from an initial roughly 30-by-30-foot collapse to swallow the driveway and wrap up to the front door of Cage’s beachfront house.
- City records show Cage filed three permits soon after the collapse and received approvals for emergency sandbagging plus work to remove asphalt and prepare for shoring and soil sampling.
- Firefighters responded to a broken gas line after the collapse and no injuries have been reported, though surface equipment and a privacy fence were lost into the cavity.
- The City of Malibu declared the street unsafe and ordered a mandatory evacuation because emergency vehicles cannot reach Sea Level Drive, leaving 31 homes off-limits while stabilization work continues.
- Coastal erosion and the street’s single-entry layout have heightened the danger and officials say immediate steps are focused on short-term protection and soil testing before longer-term engineering fixes.