A new prescribed burn, called Sedgwick, was initiated today at 9:22 a.m. in Santa Barbara County, California. The prescribed fire has been burning on private land. Currently, there is no information ...

The National Weather Service warns of excessive rainfall capable of causing life-threatening flooding, debris flows, and ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The press release below, in English and Spanish, from Direct Relief details free N95 mask distribution sites as the largest wildfire this year in California continues to ...

The Lake Fire burns close to what was Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, Calif., July 6, 2024. automation The largest blaze of the California wildfire season, the Lake Fire in Santa ...

Today, Nov. 21, the Fire Department transitioned from a High Fire Season to a Winter Preparedness Level. With the transition, the ban ...

TO OUR WILDFIRE COVERAGE NOW, THE FAST GROWING GIFFORD FIRE FORCING EVACUATIONS IN SANTA BARBARA AND SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES. THIS IS A TIME LAPSE OF THE FIRE FROM AN ALERT CALIFORNIA CAMERA. OVER ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Fire Department helped put out a kitchen fire at 5100 Dawn Lane in Santa Barbara County just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. A single-story family ...

Brush fires are burning in the San Bernardino County mountains, and Riverside and Santa Barbara counties as Southern California faces some of the warmest temperatures of the season. Stream Los Angeles ...

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Court documents say criminal charges are imminent in the investigation of the fire that killed 34 people aboard the scuba boat Conception last year off the coast of Santa Barbara. Nine days after the ...