Montecito suffered a devastating mudslide in 2018. Now the community has rallied to try to make sure the same thing will ...

CSU Channel Islands faculty member and students returned endangered fish back to a safe environment from the Los Angeles fires ...

The second atmospheric river this week struck Southern California on Thursday, March 12, bringing heavy rain to coastal areas, valleys, and fire-impacted zones. Flood watches were issued for Los ...

Debris flows pose a significant threat when rain falls in the aftermath of wildfires such as the Thomas Fire, which scorched more than 440 square miles in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties last ...

Twenty-three people died in 2018 when a debris flow that had formed in the Thompson fire burn scar crashed into Montecito, Calif., a coastal town near Santa Barbara.

Read on . . . to learn more about the likelihood of debris flows in L.A.'s burn areas and lessons learned from Montecito's devastating mudslide in 2018.

The most recent devastation was in 2018, after the Thomas Fire. A debris flow in Montecito killed 23 people, many of them drowned in waves of mud or crushed by debris.

In January 2018, 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.

Debris flows are powerful enough to wreck entire buildings. In 2018, post-wildfire rivers of mud and other flotsam swept through Montecito, Calif., destroying this house and roughly 100 others.

After the Thomas fire in 2017, a debris flow in Montecito, Calif., killed 23 people and damaged or destroyed more than 400 homes.

At the annual Raising Our Light remembrance event in Montecito on Thursday, the community came together to support one another and honor the 23 victims who were lost in the 1/9 Debris Flow.