With high temperatures expected throughout Santa Barbara County this week, Southern California Edison Co. and Pacific Gas and ...

A vegetation fire blackened 10 acres Sunday afternoon on a ranch between Los Alamos and Orcutt.  Personnel from the Santa ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council has appointed former Santa Barbara County Fire Marshal Robert "Rob" Hazard as its ...

Investigators in Santa Barbara County are asking for the public’s help in identifying three suspects connected to an arson nearly a year and a half ago. The Dec. 5, 2024, fire happened at 478 4th ...

Santa Rosa Island Fire initially started 4:19 p.m. May 15 on South side of Santa Rosa Island, between Ford Point and South Point in Santa Barbara County, California. By Wednesday noon, 18,379 acres of ...

The National Weather Service forecasts temps in the 100s in the foothills, with winds from 20-30mph and gusts of 45-55mph ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara County Fire Department, and our county fire partner agencies, Carpinteria-Summerland ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National Park Service employees are evacuated by helicopter from Santa Rosa Island amid a growing vegetation fire. (Santa Barbara ...

UPDATE (5:14 p.m.): Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews have safely rescued a woman who became stranded on a coastal bluff at More Mesa Open Space. She was evaluated on scene by Santa Barbara ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.- Firefighters responded to a vegetation fire in Santa Barbara Thursday evening. At 7:45 p.m., Santa Barbara County fire crews were dispatched to the 1200 block of North ...