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Search Efforts Continue After California Mudslides Killed At Least 15

Rescuers are looking for trapped and injured people in Santa Barbara County, where rain storms hit hills that were recently devastated by wildfires, causing deadly mudslides.
Mud fills the interior of a car destroyed in a rain-driven mudslide in a neighborhood under mandatory evacuation in Burbank.

Rescue efforts are ongoing in Santa Barbara County in California, with search teams looking for people who were caught by massive mudslides that swamped houses and trapped cars on Tuesday.

At least 15 people have died as a result of the mudslides, triggered when heavy rains

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