Santa Barbara County Supervisor Roy Lee and City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon listen in on a town hall meeting about fire concerns. The Tuesday evening session was in Mission Canyon.

The Montecito Fire Department partners with the Santa Barbara Fire Safe Council to fund ... Montecito Fire has an Interactive Neighborhood Chipping Map that allows residents to type in their ...

The Moss Landing facility was finished in 2020, before California began implementing the 2018 International Fire Code (IFC). Standards since then have required testing and measures to reduce the risk ...

About 3,000 seasonal firefighters with Cal Fire could soon ... the Thomas fire in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in December 2017, have shifted understanding of the risk.

In light of the recent devastating fires in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara officials have intensified their focus on fire safety and preparedness measures. During a town hall forum at the Santa Barbara ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews were on scene for a brush fire at Farren Road near Goleta just after 7:00 p.m.

We're prepared, but it will take constant vigilance on everyone's part. The fires that devastated Los Angeles have sparked a new sense of urgency for fire ...

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Santa Cruz County officials report no elevated public health risks following the Moss Landing battery plant fire.