Santa Barbara residents hope the coming storm will slow the fire without unleashing a deluge that could cause more life-threatening damage.
Gordon Sichi rebuilt his house in the same spot where in 1990 he had lost it to flames.
He loved this place — this cluster of homes in the mountains north of Santa Barbara — but the Painted Cave fire had taught him a lesson. Through the years he did what he could to protect the house, adding a metal roof, fire-resistant windows and a more-than-$90,000 system that with a touch of a button on his phone, remotely causes sprinklers to douse the home with thousands of gallons of water.
When a wildfire again tore through these hills on Monday evening, Sichi decided not to evacuate with his wife. Instead, he drove to a hill that overlooks his community and stared at his home on his phone, thanks to night-vision cameras he’d installed near his chimney.
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