"You wake up in the morning at about 5 o'clock ... and then you watch the sun rise and this extremely peaceful and serene atmosphere and then you just look at the sun coming like a ball of fire, rising from the sand and then coming up, " recalls Jibunoh.

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"It very quiet, it's very serene and peaceful, " says Larry Koch, a retired airline pilot who lives in the mountains above Malibu.

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