On the eighth anniversary of the deadly debris flow that killed 23 people in Montecito, we commemorate the disaster’s victims with a short documentary recounting the catastrophe.
In the early morning hours of January 9, 2018, torrential rains unleashed a series of mudslides and boulders that roared down the hillsides of Montecito, killing 23 people and damaging hundreds of homes, scarring the landscape and the psyches of our community.
A year later, on the first anniversary of this tragic event, we released this 22-minute video as a testament to both the trauma and the resiliency our citizens…