{"id":43395,"date":"2018-01-11T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43395"},"modified":"2018-01-11T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:58:08","slug":"17-dead-in-california-mudslides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43395","title":{"rendered":"17 dead in California mudslides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONTECITO Jan 11 (TNS):<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0Anxious family members awaited word on loved ones as rescue crews searched for more than a dozen people missing after mudslides in Southern California destroyed an estimated 100 houses, swept away cars and left at least 17 victims dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just waiting and not knowing, and the more I haven\u2019t heard from them\u2014we have to find them,\u201d said Kelly Weimer, whose elderly parents\u2019 home was wrecked by the torrent of mud, trees and boulders that flowed down a fire-scarred mountain and slammed into the coastal town of Montecito in Santa Barbara County early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The drenching storm that triggered the disaster had cleared out; giving way to sunny skies, as hundreds of searchers carefully combed a landscape strewn with hazards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten multiple reports of rescuers falling through manholes that were covered with mud, swimming pools that were covered up with mud,\u201d said Anthony Buzzerio, a Los Angeles County fire battalion chief. \u201cThe mud is acting like a candy shell on ice cream. It\u2019s crusty on top but soft underneath, so we\u2019re having to be very careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buzzerio led a team of 14 firefighters and six dogs in thick debris. They used long-handled tools to search the muck in the painstaking task.<\/p>\n<p>Teams rescued three people Wednesday, but they also discovered two more bodies, raising the death count to 17, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said. Seventeen people were reported missing.<\/p>\n<p>A dozen people were hospitalized at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and four of them were in critical condition, Dr. Brett Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTECITO Jan 11 (TNS): \u00a0\u00a0Anxious family members awaited word on loved ones as rescue crews searched for more than a dozen people missing after mudslides in Southern California destroyed an estimated 100 houses, swept away cars and left at least 17 victims dead. \u201cIt\u2019s just waiting and not knowing, and the more I haven\u2019t heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[932,2080],"class_list":["post-43395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-international","tag-montecito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43397,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43395\/revisions\/43397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}