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  • California mudslide nightmare: Homes destroyed, lives lost
  • A mudslide pounded the town Montecito, Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles
  • Hundreds of searchers continued digging through knee-deep ooze Thursday looking for survivors
  • Rescue crews worked up to 12 hours a day and risked stepping on nails, shattered glass, or being exposed to raw sewage and leaking gas
  • The heavy rains that spawned mudslides in Southern California on Tuesday killed at least 17 people leaving a path of destruction
  • The mudslides are the result of a powerful rainstorm that hit the state’s southern region on Monday
  • Officials said that at least 21,000 people have been evacuated as a result of the mudslides
  • Searchers from around the state continue to dig through the mud and wreckage left by the flash flooding
  • Mud and leftover debris was sent down hillsides that were burned by the Thomas Fire
  • People in Montecito had counted themselves lucky last month after the biggest wildfire in California history spared the town