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County declares local emergency for storm
ANNELISE HANSHAW / NEWS-PRESS
An evacuation center opens at Santa Barbara City College’s Wake Center, 300 N Turnpike Road, at noon Sunday. An American Red Cross trailer holds supplies.
Santa Barbara County firefighters haul away fallen trees in the Alisal Fire burn scar area.
Alisal Fire burn scar threatened by flash floods By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
A sign, placed by the Alisal Fire burn scar, warns of the risk of debris flow prior to today’s rain.
Santa Barbara County Chief Executive Officer and Director of Emergency Services Mona Miyasato signed a proclamation of local emergency Sunday afternoon in preparation for today’s storm.
The document narrows on the Alisal Fire burn scar — an area which “poses serious risks of rock falls, flooding and debris flows,” the proclamation says. The proclamation allows the county to use all resources it deems necessary to respond to the damages and seek funding through the California Disaster Assistance Act.
The county requests Gov. Gavin Newsom to proclaim a State of Emergency as a result of the storm — which began causing mudslides in Northern California Sunday morning. The rainfall hitting Santa Barbara County is part of a powerful system called a “bomb cyclone” with an atmospheric river (a Please see EMERGENCY on A4
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The United States Burned Area Emergency Response team is assessing the damage to the Goleta/Gaviota mountainside.
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