Santa Barbara on Monday night got heavy winds, fueling the dangerous Cave fire that threatened numerous homes north of the city. But nature might also offer firefighters some relief, in the form of a storm moving in Tuesday night.
Firefighters struggle with a brush fire that has forced thousands in Santa Barbara County to evacuate. They hope a coming bout of rain turns the tide.The community was not under a mandatory evacuation order, and Cortez figured that if he really had to leave, police would come into the neighborhood to alert residents. In the meantime, he repositioned his car so he could make a quick getaway and began packing some important paperwork and belongings.
Cortez watched the news on his computer until 4 a.m., keeping the windows blinds up so he could keep an eye on the fire on the mountains outside. “It looked like it would calm down, and then it would flare up again,” he said. The rain will likely reach the Central Coast by midnight before moving into Los Angeles County by sunrise on Wednesday. The storm is expected to dump one to two inches of precipitation on the coast and valleys, and up to three inches in the foothills and lower elevations of the mountains, said Kristen Stewart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
“There’s likely going to be heavy rain for the morning commute in Los Angeles tomorrow, so people should be prepared for that,” she said. The storm also brings the potential for debris flows in burn-scarred areas in Southern California, including the San Fernando Valley region affected by the
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