Less than two months following the deadly mudslides in Montecito, parts of southern Santa Barbara County are again under mandatory evacuation orders.
In advance of a storm expected to hit Santa Barbara County Thursday night, officials ordered mandatory evacuations for locations below the Thomas, Whittier and Sherpa fire burn areas. Read More …
Multiple lawsuits in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties accuse utility Southern California Edison of negligent activity that caused the Thomas Fire and ultimately led to numerous deaths in the Montecito mudslides. Read More …
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives caught three men driving through the Montecito disaster area on Tuesday in a possibly stolen vehicle carrying a large amount of ammunition and a spent handgun Read More …
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday that one of the persons missing in the aftermath of the Montecito mudslides has been located. Authorities found John “Jack” Keating, 53, in Read More …
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has released a list of the 17 people confirmed dead in the storm that struck the Montecito area earlier this week. All of the victims Read More …
The storm that struck the Montecito area has killed a total of 17 people, as of Thursday morning. Meanwhile, eight people remain missing. On Wednesday, authorities discovered two dead bodies, raising Read More …
In addition to killing 15 people, the flooding and mudslides destroyed 100 homes in Santa Barbara County Tuesday morning, according to the county’s fire department. Some of the residents of the Read More …
Flooding and mudslides killed at least five people in the Montecito area overnight, as a storm ravaged the Santa Barbara County community days after the Thomas Fire swept through its neighborhoods.
The storm trapped numerous residents in or around their homes in various areas of Santa Barbara County early Tuesday morning. Read More …
A property manager, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies and Central Coast law enforcement officers assigned to patrol Thomas Fire evacuation areas teamed up to catch a man burglarizing a Montecito home Read More …