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Following is a road construction update on the Highway 101 work in the Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria areas from Feb. 18-March 2. Note that rain is

The California Transportation Commission has awarded $132.4 million to the Santa Barbara portion of the massive Highway 101 project. The Santa

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/ One of the approximately one thousand swifts which was rescued from the chimney of a Montectio home An estimated thousand swifts stuck in home chimney Some South Coast firefighters and animal services workers teamed up for a very unusual rescue effort. An estimated one thousand small birds became trapped in the chimney of a home on Hermosillo Road in Montecito. Many of them had come down the chimney into the fireplace, where they were trapped by the gate which covers it. The first effort by the Montecito Fire Department was to open the chimney’s flue, but the birds didn’t take the hint...

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 home's 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 officials hoped the birds would fly out on their own overnight and decided to wait on further measures. ...