Roughly 25,000 people in California were ordered evacuated on Monday, including the entire town of Montecito and nearby areas of the Santa Barbara coast, due to heightened flood and mudslide hazards from a recent string of deadly storms, officials said. Montecito and the surrounding areas are among 17 California regions where authorities worry a series of torrential downpours since late December could unleash deadly cascades of mud, boulders and other debris in hillsides stripped bare of vegetation by past wildfires.
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