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Tea Fire Burns Santa Barbara

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Mountain Drive Volunteer fire fighters watch the progression of the Tea Fire View photo »

Steve Dunn, a Mountain Drive resident who was not allowed to go to his home and worried about his 90 year-old father, gets a welcome text message that his family evacuated safely. View photo »

A Mountain Dr. resident pulls over to take one last look before evacuating his home View photo »

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A small spark that landed in a palm tree quickly spread to the entire yard View photo »

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Santa Barbara City Fire Station 7 braces as winds push the Tea Fire closer View photo »

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Fire comes over a house off Las Alturas View photo »

Montecito Planning Commission member and Mountain Dr. resident Claire Gottsdanker takes one last look before evacuating her house View photo »

Sycamore Canyon resident Vincent Uribe, who lost this storage shed as the fire skirted his property, tries to keep the falling embers away from his home. View photo »

Sycamore Canyon resident Vincent Uribe hoses down the house that his grandfather built. The house has survived 3 previous fires. View photo »

Joey Uribe stayed with her husband at their Sycamore Canyon home. View photo »

A Sycamore Canyon home burned to the ground. View photo »

A burning truck in the driveway of a burned out house. View photo »

Power lines down across Gibraltar Rd. View photo »

A Gibraltar Road home, gutted by fire, still has flames from gas lines roaring 10 feet in the air. View photo »

A house off of El Cielito Rd. engulfed in flames. View photo »

Reportedly the home of Retired Santa Barbara police officer Payne Green burned to the ground. Payne reportedly also lost a home in the historic Sycamore Canyon Fire. View photo »

Flames from the gas lines still reach 10 feet in the air though the home is long gone. View photo »

The view of a home off Gibraltar Rd. burned to the ground. View photo »

The last wall of a El Cielito home falls down as the residence is fully engulfed in flames. View photo »

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