Two Taft residents taken into custody for burglarizing local home in active evacuation zone

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Two Taft residents were arrested for burglary after breaking into a home under an evacuation order due to a nearby vegetation fire Thursday.

On May 21, around 8:18 a.m., dispatchers received a report of a burglary in progress at a home in the 2100 block of Schaeffer Road outside of Cuyama stated a press release from the Santa Barbra County Sheriff’s Office.

The home is within an active evacuation order issued in response to the Foothill Fire which sparked earlier this week…

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