bursts of intense rainfall in burn-scar areas from the Thomas fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara County, triggered a catastrophic mudslide in Montecito that swept homes ...
a few weeks after the Thomas fire burned through the hills above Montecito, a storm triggered debris flows that killed 23 people and damaged at least 400 homes. The geography of the land, burn ...
When and whether mobile home owners can return to rebuild depends on state, local and federal policies and aid.
As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.
Flash-flood and mudslide risks for the burn areas had mostly ... took out more than 100 homes and killed 23 people. That storm cell hit not long after the Thomas fire, an unusual December wildfire ...