Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

With heavy rain bringing the risk of dangerous debris flows, the Los Angeles Fire Department has announced evacuation warnings — and mandatory evacuation orders for some specific addresses — in areas ...

In Santa Barbara, people living in at-risk areas were told to leave by 3 p.m. Wednesday. The National Weather ...

Contributing to the severity of the Montecito debris flow was the failure of government officials to build bigger basins that could have made mudslides far less catastrophic, a Times investigation ...

Why it matters: Two people died because of the Thomas Fire, which burned through Santa Barbara County in late 2017. But the mudslides that followed killed 23 people in the town of Montecito and ...

Newsom's office compared the situation to the Montecito mudslides that followed the Thomas Fire in January 2018. The mudslides killed 23 people and destroyed or damaged roughly 4,000 homes.

Rain has already started in San Luis Obispo and will soak Santa Barbara and Ventura counties later Monday before reaching Los Angeles.

On Wednesday the Hughes fire erupted near Castaic Lake. Residents struggle in the aftermath of the 2018 Montecito mudslides. Picture: AFP In 2018 the community of Montecito, which Prince Harry and ...

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Rain has already started in San Luis Obispo and will soak Santa Barbara and Ventura counties ... the National Weather Service said. A mudslide can fill an average house in seconds.

And what raises the risk of them occurring? When a landslide follows fire: The deadly Montecito mudslides Geology and wildfire experts say landslides and mudslides, usually a concern following ...