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January 10, 2018

First Fire, Then Floods: 13 Dead in Mudslides in California
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In California, at least 13 people have died after torrential rains
triggered mudslides in Santa Barbara County. At least two dozen more
people are missing, and authorities expect the death toll to rise.
Scientists have linked extreme rainfall events to climate change. This
is Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown.

Sheriff Bill Brown: "While we hope it will not, we expect that this
number will increase as we continue to look for people who are still
missing and unaccounted for. We had a very difficult time assessing the
area and responding to many of those areas to assist those people. The
only words I can really think of to describe what it looked like was it
looked like a World War I battlefield."

The torrential downpours and deadly mudslides in Santa Barbara,
California, come only weeks after the region was ravaged by historic and
deadly winter wildfires.


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