Guernica Magazine, April 2018
"By the time I landed, the fire had burned for 39 days, destroyed 1,063 structures and damaged 280 more; over 100,000 people had to at one point or another evacuate; the brushfire would go down as the largest in state history. A rainstorm that bore down just as the fire receded sent a river of boulders and debris through Montecito, damaging 460 homes, destroying 73 more, and leaving 20 bodies dead in the mud."