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A sign made by Debbie Trauntvein and her son Evan offering their gratitude is displayed at a fire hydrant on State Street.
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Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Firefighter thanks

A sign made by Debbie Trauntvein and her son Evan offering their gratitude is displayed at a fire hydrant on State Street.   (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A luxury home

A luxury home on La Vista Road was destroyed in the Jesusita fire. Firefighters said the blaze was about 55% contained by Sunday morning.



  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A view from La Vista Road

A charred view from La Vista Road shows a residence that was spared as thousands of residents made their way back to their homes on Sunday.



  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Bleak

Scorched manzanita and bare dirt are all that remain where hundreds of acres of brush burned near Gibraltar Road in Santa Barbara.



  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Fog

Fog hugs the burned hillside along San Marcos Pass Road, or California Highway 154.



  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Creating a break

Members of the Vandenberg Wildcats Hot Shot crew clear a fire line.



  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Branches away

A member of the Vandenberg Wildcats Hot Shot crew tosses a branch as they create a fire line.



  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Orange and gray

The Fenner Canyon Conservation Camp strike team rests on a charred hillside waiting to be sent back to the front line of the Jesusita fire near Gibraltar Road in Santa Barbara.



  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Team

Fenner Canyon Conservation Camp strike team member Steven Williams talks with his teammates.



  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Hot spot

A firefighter shoots water onto hot embers in the ruins of a Mission Canyon home.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Saved

Josh Lynn stands in the field across from his home, which survived the blaze. The field was cleared just a few days before the Jesusita fire broke out. “Our place could have easily burned,” says Lynn. “We’re lucky.” The home is on Ontare Road, west of San Roque Road.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Cyclists

Mission Canyon residents Mike Schlagel, Jennifer Ellison and Andy Fuller, from left, survey the scene.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Bike

Coastal fog shrouds a fire-ravaged area in Mission Canyon. The worst of Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire is probably over, but evacuation orders remain in effect for some areas.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Couple

Santa Barbara residents Karen and David Telleen-Lawton stand frustrated at the corner of Mission Canyon and Foothill roads. Police at the roadblock there denied the couple entry as they attempted to walk to their home.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Tears

San Roque Road resident Glen Miller wipes away tears of relief after realizing that his house is safe.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Firefighting plane

Calm winds allowed firefighting teams to drop dozens of rows of flame retardant along the ridge lines above Montecito on Friday.  (Spncer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

Conrad Leidall, 4, seeks comfort while with his family at an evacuation center on UC Santa Barbara campus. More than 3,500 acres had burned, and fire officials said the blaze remained unpredictable.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

Denise Cutbirth, 55, daughter Vittoria, 15, and their Australian shepherd are living out of a room at Motel 6.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

David Salvia plays guitar as he waits out the Jesusita fire at an evacuation center at UC Santa Barbara, where rows of cots had been set up.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

scorched earth

Scorched earth from Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire along Camino Cielo Road. The blaze has destroyed at least 75 homes and prompted mandatory evacuations for most of the city.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Bleak landscape

Charred structures and landscaping are all that remain of a home on Holly Drive in Santa Barbara, where the Jesusita fire destroyed several houses.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Fire from the air

Plumes of smoke billow from the Jesusita fire in the mountains above Santa Barbara on Friday evening. The view is looking west.  (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara hillside

A charred hillside surrounds homes unscathed by the Jesusita fire in Santa Barbara.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles TImes)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Fire retardant is dropped on the Jesusita fire in the San Marcos Pass near Santa Barbara.  (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

A spotter helicopter keeps tabs on the Jesusita fire along the San Marcos Pass.  (Bryan Chan / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire continues its destructive path, leaving only an overturned statue and smoldering ruins at this ocean-view home along upper Alamar Street.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Before sunrise today, an Orange County firefighter is surrounded by flying ash as Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire approaches a home along Foothill Road.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Forest Service firefighter Steve Johnson stands guard as Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire approaches a home along upper Alamar Street early today.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Jesusita fire

A firefighting aircraft is dwarfed by plumes of smoke as the fire rages on.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Jesusita fire

A large smoke plume rises over Santa Barbara.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

Flames tower over a home in the Barger Canyon area in the hills above Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

The Jesusita fire burns behind the Mission Santa Barbara, clouding the sky with smoke.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

Smoke from Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire darkens the sky along Holly Road above Mission Canyon. Calmer winds allowed firefighters to make progress controlling the blaze.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

Tired fire crews from Tulare rest after cutting fire lines all day in the hills above Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

A crew makes fire breaks on the hillside in an effort to control the Jesusita fire.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fires

Santa Barbara firefighter Jack Franklin walks past a home in his neighborhood that burned down. Franklin and his neighbor Ken Jones stayed behind to watch their homes and others in the area.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Al and Barbara Lindemann talk about a harrowing evening spent in their home where they hunkered-down during the firestorm in the Mission Canyon area of Santa Barbara. The Lindemanns and their son took many measures, including the use of a fire retardant and metal shutters to fend off the flames that surrounded their home.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Paso Robles firefighter Joel Platter applies foam to the smoldering remains of a home off Tunnel Road in the Mission Canyon area of Santa Barbara, where nearly two dozen homes have burned.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

A religious statue stands over the burned garden at a home site on Tunnel Road in the Mission Canyon area of Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

The Jesusita fire continues to burn in the hills above Santa Barbara, displacing thousands of residents from their hillside homes.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

A home is engulfed in flames as the Jesusita fire burns in the foothills near Santa Barbara.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

The Jesusita fire claimed dozens of Santa Barbara-area homes, though some were spared.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gets a briefing from incident commander Ed Locke regarding Santa Barbara’s Jesusita fire.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

A Los Angeles City firefighter puts out a hot spot on the north end of Tunnel Road near Santa Barbara.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Los Angeles City firefighters return to a home on Holly Road where a battalion chief’s truck was scorched Wednesday by flames in Santa Barbara’s Mission Canyon area.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

A burning home on Holly Road in the Mission Canyon area above Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames lick at what’s left of a home on Holly Road in the Mission Canyon area above Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames finish off a home in Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Smoke blows toward the ocean as a wildfire burns through hillside neighborhoods of Santa Barbara.  (Luis SInco / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames eat away at a sprawling, multi-level home on a Santa Barbara hillside.  (Luis SInco / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Smoke stretches across a hillside neighborhood in Santa Barbara.  (Luis SInco / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames ravage a home on San Roque Road in Santa Barbara.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

A crew douses burned firewood near a home damaged by the Jesusita fire.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

A power line touches Mission Canyon Road amid the smoky devastation of the fire.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

A helicopter douses flames going up the hillside toward a home.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames loom behind a home on San Roque Road in Santa Barbara.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Smoke partly obscures the view of homes on San Roque Road in Santa Barbara.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

A California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection tanker drops a load of retardant on the Jesusita fire in the hills of Santa Barbara.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Two crew members from the Salinas Fire Department stand watch over a home as it burns in Santa Barbara.  (Dan Steinberg / Associated Press)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames engulf a home in Santa Barbara.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

A plane fights the fire from the air.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Smoke from the fire roils above De La Guerra Plaza in downtown Santa Barbara.  (Rafael Maldonado / Associated Press)

Santa Barbara fire

A Beverly Hills firefighter on structure protection duty observes the fire.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara fire

Flames soar above homes in the hills of Santa Barbara.  (Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images)

Santa Barbara fire

Two people on Stearns Wharf observe the fire, which is fueled by Sundowner winds.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Stable hand Tony Jimenez cleans up at the Earl Warren Showground in Santa Barbara, where some of the more than 40 horses evacuated because of the wildfire are being sheltered.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Cherie Topper checks in on her evacuated llama, Oreo, at the Earl Warren Showground in Santa Barbara.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

A helicopter stirs up a flurry of embers while making a nighttime water drop at the site of the Jesusita fire in Santa Barbara’s Mission Canyon.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

Seldon Edner watches the fire burn in the hills above his home in the Mission Canyon area.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Wind-driven blaze in Santa Barbara

The Jesusita fire burns in the foothills above Santa Barbara.  (Keith Cullom / Associated Press)

Santa Barbara brush fire

Ranch hands work together to evacuate a herd of goats.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara brush fire

Water-dropping helicopters try to stop the fire from spreading. Ground crews were also battling the blaze.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Santa Barbara brush fire

Homeowner Patty Bryant loads some of her belongings into a truck as she prepares to evacuate.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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