Rain moves through Southern California, dousing fires but without causing serious mudslides
Rain has mostly moved out of Southern California after the first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours ...
California Emergency Workers Are Battling a New and Potentially Deadly Threat: Mudslides
Weekend rains threaten to trigger dangerous mudslides in hillside communities leveled by Southern California wildfires in the ...
Rain and snow finally break SoCal’s relentless dryness that fueled unprecedented fires
The heaviest rainfall has slowed across Southern California. While the storm caused some mudslide and flooding issues, ...
CBS News13d
Rainy weekend prompts concerns of mudslides in LA County burn scars
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.
New York Sun9d
From Flames to Floods: LA Faces Mudslide Threat as Rains Follow Wildfires
Post-fire mudslides have bedeviled the Los Angeles area for many years. In 2018, the town of Montecito saw hundreds of homes damaged and 23 people dead after a deluge of rain fell upon mountain slopes ...
California Faces Mudslide Threat From Flooding Rains After Wildfires
Weeks after wildfires that killed at least 29 people and destroyed entire neighborhoods, Southern California is facing ...
Los Angeles Daily News9d
Burn-scar areas avoid major incidents after rain, risk of hazards continue
In 2018, bursts of intense rainfall in burn-scar areas from the Thomas fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara County, triggered a catastrophic mudslide in Montecito that ...
CBS News5d
SoCal Edison customers to cover $1.6 billion in Thomas Fire settlement costs, state officials say
The Thomas Fire burned down more than 1,000 structures, including homes, before the deadly Montecito mudslides weeks later in January 2018 destroyed more than 100 homes. The California Governor's ...
LA to finally receive rain this month but it brings the threat of toxic mudslides
Los Angeles is finally due for some rain this weekend with authorities frantically preparing for the possibility mudslides in ...
Firehouse10d
Rain Batters Los Angeles, Threatening Mudslides, Toxic Flooding after Wildfires
Water was pumped out of the Palisades fire station as a rainstorm hit the area devastated by the historic wildfires.
Los Angeles Times13d
Opinion: After the Los Angeles fires stop burning, another grave risk to lives and property looms
Depending on how much sediment, rock and wood is incorporated, these phenomena are known as mudslides or debris ... Ynez Mountains above Ventura and Santa Barbara counties — created some of ...