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At least one person was killed in a crash off Highway 101 in Summerland Friday evening.

Housing and Development Newsletter The exhibit even includes woodchips covering the ground and embers projection mapped onto burned logs, making visitors feel as if they really were in the middle of a forest set ablaze. Turpin said the woodchips were provided by the Montecito Fire Protection District wood chipping program, in which chipping services for shrubs and tree limbs are provided to residents by Montecito Fire contractors in order to prevent fires. The embers were recorded and carefully...

Skip to main content Currently Reading 1,000 birds got stuck in a Calif. homes fireplace, and its every bit as horrific as that sounds FacebookTwitterEmail The fireplace at the Montecito home, after the removal of around 1,000 trapped birds.Montecito Fire In a nightmarish scene that would make Hitchcock proud, upwards of one thousand birds got stuck in a fireplace in a Montecito, Calif., home last weekend.  "Every day is different in the fire service!" the Montecito Fire Department said in a s...

MONTECITO, Calif. -- Hundreds of trapped birds were freed from a chimney in Montecito Monday afternoon. The report came in Sunday at around 8 p.m. The Montecito Fire Department responded to the 100 block of Hermosillo Road to reports of birds or bats trapped in the homes chimney. Upon arrival, firefighters and County Animal Services said they found about 1,000 small birds attempting to escape the chimney but were blocked by the gate covering the fireplace. Both fire and animal service offici...

Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue carried two injured hikers back to safety from Hot Springs Canyon Trail Saturday during separate incidents. The first occurred around 11:30 a.m. Crews with Montecito Fire and AMR as well as Sheriffs helicopter 3 responded to reports o...

Nelson Roosendahl SUMMERLAND, Calif. - Firefighters with Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District and Montecito Fire responded to a fatal train crash in Summerland Tuesday afternoon. It happened around 1:33 p.m. on the tracks running parallel to the west end of Lookout Park. Crews said the initial call sent them to an area near Fernald Point, however the victim and train were located at the actual scene near Lookout. Once there, paramedics found a woman in her mid-30s who was pronounced ...