A brush fire broke out Monday morning in the Big Bear area and expanded to more than 300 acres hours later at the start of a ...

The FEMA recovery map is now the county’s best flood map, said Tom Fayram, director of county Flood Control. For one thing, he said, FEMA based its calculations on aerial LIDAR data, or remote sensing ...

As residents trapped both inside and outside of Montecito grapple with the uncertainty of a lost home, either their own or that of a friend or relative, the Independent is beginning to map out the ...

Reporting from Montecito, Calif. — On Sunday, Montecito’s neighborhoods were mostly deserted. I walked along muddy streets, awed by the devastation. Squishy muck covered lawns and driveways ...

The debris flow in Montecito this past winter changed not only people’s lives but the physical landscape of the community, too. Some creeks widened and deepened, others are now filled with rocks, and ...

While the map does not show debris-flow risk, it should help people understand their flood risk, said Fayram, who heads county Flood Control. He urged the board to approve the interim map.

Before and after imagery provided by DigitalGlobe. Satellite image on three-dimensional map provided by Planet. Originally published Jan. 12, 2018.

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