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Last Friday, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department issued an Air Quality Warning for parts of Santa Barbara County as a result of air contamination stemming from the Camarillo Springs Fire. The fire, which was mostly contained as of yesterday, burned tens of thousands of acres of land across [...]
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Flames engulfed a Toyota Rav4 in the parking lot between Campbell Hall and the Mosher Alumni House this afternoon, destroying the SUV and charring two other cars. The Santa Barbara County Fire Department and UCPD arrived at the scene minutes after onlookers reported the fire, which initially spread from a [...]
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A.S. Senate Bill Ignites Debate on Censorship Over ‘UCSB Confessions’ and ‘UCSB Hookups’ The national student rights organization FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, has reported on an Associated Students Senate bill calling for UCSB administration to moderate — and potentially shut down — the two popular [...]
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100 people were evacuated from their homes as the result of a wildfire that overtook the hills in Santa Barbara near Highway 154, the same region where a similar fire scorched some 550 homes in 1990. According to a news line by the Santa Barbara Fire Department, the Lookout Fire, [...]
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A structure fire that began in an apartment complex on the 6500 block of Trigo Road early Sunday morning is suspected to be a case of arson. Authorities speculated that the fire was started sometime between 5 and 5:30 a.m. by burning trash in the stairwell of the building. Currently, [...]