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[Update]: The Cal Fire engineer from San Diego who died while working on the eastern flank of the Thomas Fire in Ventura County has been identified as 32-year-old Cory Iverson.

[Update]: Santa Barbara residents are upset with the City's decision to continue street sweeping, causing a major dust-up of ash particles from the Thomas Fire and disregarding the Public Health Department's advisory.

A man suffered moderate injuries and one dog died during a traffic collision on Harris Grade Road Wednesday afternoon. 

A man was found on Wednesday morning after crawling from the wreckage of a vehicle accident that took place on Tuesday night on Tepusquet Road in Santa Maria.

The Thomas Fire is just one of the many fires to hit the Santa Barbara area since 1990. Read up on the history of our local fires.

[Update]: A man was seriously injured after a vehicle rollover incident on Highway 101 near Patterson exit on Monday morning.

Santa Barbara County firefighters are responding to a 5-10 acre brush fire in Los Olivos that sparked on Sunday evening. 

[Update]: The body of a woman was found in Wheeler Canyon near Ojai.

A man was seriously injured and two dogs were killed in a single-vehicle rollover traffic accident in the Santa Ynez Valley on Saturday evening.

During the Thomas Fire, reports have come in regarding fraudulent charity fundraisers and scammers posing as SoCal Edison employees.

Santa Barbara County firefighters tackled three separate brush fires near Cat Canyon on Thursday and into early Friday morning.

[Update]: A semi-truck with a trailer crashed over the side of SR-154 near Paradise Road early Thursday morning causing a traffic delay.

Several maps are available to track the area of the Thomas Fire in Ventura County.

Santa Barbara and Carpinteria are embracing Thomas Fire evacuees as the Carpinteria Unified School District closed on Wednesday.

[Update]: The Thomas Fire in Santa Paula has caused widespread power outages in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

A brush fire off Cat Canyon road is nearly contained after burning 10 acres on Tuesday afternoon.

A triple fatality head-on traffic collision took place on SR-166 near Cuyama late Sunday afternoon.

A travel trailer and flatbed truck sustained major damage in a fire on S. Kellogg Ave in Goleta early Sunday morning.

[Update]: A woman has died after her two-door Mercedes crashed into a rock wall and then head-on into an MTD bus at the bottom of Cliff Drive.

A tree caught on fire along Highway 101 southbound near Winchester Canyon in Goleta on Monday evening.

Santa Barbara County fire crews are keeping an eye on smoke along the bluffs of Hendry's Beach due to smoldering shale oil.

A man was seriously injured after crashing his vehicle into a tree on Highway 154 early Monday morning.

A Santa Barbara man was arrested for a possible DUI after crashing his vehicle into a tree on SR-154 near Stagecoach Road, causing serious injuries to himself and his passenger.

Santa Barbara County firefighters contained a 2-acre brush fire on the Greka Oil property in the Santa Maria Valley on Saturday morning.

[Update]: A paraglider sustained a foot injury after crashing into an area off Rattlesnake Trail late Saturday morning.

[Update]: The 380-acre Encelados brush fire at the Vandenberg Air Force Base is 50% contained.

A shed and fence caught fire in the Walnut area off Hollister Ave when a resident tried to start a BBQ using gasoline.

Immigration crackdown drives many in this county to become American, reports Melinda Burns.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Santa Barbara Surgical Center alleging wrongful termination, whistleblower retaliation, age discrimination, and several other illegal practices.

[Update]: The Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department is investigating a homicide and officer-involved shooting in Lompoc on Saturday.