“It is a beast,” Santa Barbara County Fire Department Division Chief Martin Johnson said at a news conference. "It is a beast" - Santa Barbara County Fire Department Division Chief Martin JohnsonWinfrey expressed her dismay on her Twitter account. Montecito residents piled into cars and fled on Saturday, turning downtown Santa Barbara into what one resident called "a ghost town." Montecito resident Darren Caesar told the Los Angeles Times his wife, and two of his three daughters were planning to evacuate. The evacuation zone near Santa Barbara on Saturday was 17 miles long and up to 5 miles wide and the new expansion encompassed about 3,300 people.

Source: Fox News December 17, 2017 13:03 UTC