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Rey Fire
Santa Barbara firefighters scramble to catchup with spot fires caused by embers blown hundreds of yards ahead of them.
Previews
Site Feaures
Fire Hstory
Santa Barbara Wildfires
Detailed histories of every Santa Babrara Wildfire dating back to the 1950s and nearby counties, including the 1990 PaintedCave Fire, the Tea and Jeususita fires and many more.
Slides & Picts
The Digital Collection
Just developing - the biggest collection of wildfire image galleries and slideshows dating back to the Zaca Fire..
Video Access
SB Fire Cameras
Quick access to a dozen of the County's hill and mountaintop cameras as well as access to others throughout the state.Research
Context can sit beside active coverage
The site can use dashboards for immediate field reporting while longer research pieces and fire histories live elsewhere in the architecture. That keeps live coverage quick to scan without losing the deeper context that sets the project apart.
As more incidents are added, the dashboard index can stay current-first while the permanent archive grows behind it.
Archive
Historic fire cases
Build long-form case studies separately from the active dashboards.
Reports
Field coverage notes
Use current incident pages as fast-turn reporting surfaces, then convert key events into durable archive entries.
Expansion
Future incident pages
Each additional fire can slot into the dashboards category and be reordered by recency as events change.