'Window closing' to find survivors in USA mudslide

Santa Barbara County Fire Search Dog Reilly looks for victims in damaged and destroyed homes in Montecito

Santa Barbara County Fire Search Dog Reilly looks for victims in damaged and destroyed homes in Montecito

Brown said Thursday that they have a list of 48 missing individuals, some of which are active cases and some are from calls to the Emergency Operations Center and Family Assistance Center.

Earlier in the day, officials placed the number of missing at eight.

But warnings for residents to leave had been issued for days before the mudslides through social media, news media and community information emails about the potential for mudflows from the huge wildfire scar in hills above neighborhoods. Others who were found, or identified among the dead, were crossed off.

The deadly mudslides that ravaged the town came a month after a massive wildfire drove many residents from their homes and blackened the nearby mountains.

Authorities have named other victims that were killed: David Cantin, 49; Peter Fleurat, 73; Josephine Gower, 69; John McManigal, 61; Alice Mitchell, 78; James Mitchell, 89; Mark Montgomery, 22; Marilyn Ramos, 27; Rebecca Riskin, 61; Roy Rohter, 84, Richard Taylor, 67 and 6-year-old Peerawat Suthhithepn.

At least 17 people are dead, including a 3-year-old girl, after mudslides tore through Southern California Tuesday, upending homes and tearing families apart.

When a voluntary evacuation order was issued for their neighborhood ahead of Tuesday's devastating storm, however, the 81-year-old Farrell, who won two gold medals in swimming at the 1960 Olympics, made a decision to stay put this time with his 71-year-old wife.

First responders have searched about 75 percent of the debris field left by a torrent of boulders, detritus and muck, according to Brown.

"Auto and pedestrian traffic in the exclusionary zone has reached a point that it is seriously impacting the ability of search and rescue, public works, other first responders and fix crews to clear roadways and to engage in search and rescue, fix and damage-assessment operations", he said.

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The sheriff's office also expanded the evacuation zone in the Montecito area on Thursday, as traffic on the already-clogged roads is hindering efforts by rescue and fix crews to access the devastation.

Pitney said many rescues were still happening Wednesday and Thursday, but most if not all were of people who were safe but just wanted to get out of the area.

Riskin is survived by her husband, two grown children and a grandson.

Numerous missing are older retirees and young children who didn't have the strength to stand up to the mud as it swept through their neighborhood.

Among those killed was Roy Rohter, the founder of the St. Augustine Academy in Ventura, according to the Catholic school's headmaster, Michael Van Hecke.

Mudslides cause heavy damage. The roadway will remain closed until at least Monday from Highway 150 to Milpas Street in Santa Barbara as crews work around the clock to clear the area of mud, cars and other debris.

"By the time I got to my house 30 seconds later there was a river of mud all over everything".

The daytime host then said that while they believed that evacuations were just cautionary, the impact of the mudslide proved to be more devastating than they would've hoped for. "Some of the locals think there's probably bodies in there".

The mudslides and floodwaters have destroyed around 100 homes, with another 300 residences damaged, within Santa Barbara County. Many streets near the downtown area remain impassible for vehicles with pools of liquid mud up to two feet deep. The walls at one end of a home had disappeared, leaving its roof hanging precariously. Fourteen helicopters and four water rescue teams were aiding the effort.

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