![]() Firefighters concentrated on protecting the communities of Carpinteria and Montecito in the southern portion of the county as the fire burned in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains where access was difficult. ![]() The fire began burning through the rugged Santa Ynez Mountains as it threatened several small communities along the Rincon Coast north of Ventura, expanded into the Los Padres National Forest, and reached Santa Barbara County. ![]() The fire threatened the Ojai Valley, and on December 13, the fire completely surrounded the area, including Lake Casitas. The fire destroyed almost as many residences in several rural communities amidst the rugged mountain terrain of Ventura County. Fast-moving, it quickly reached the city of Ventura, where over five hundred residences were destroyed that night. The fire began on December 4, north of Santa Paula, near Steckel Park and south of Thomas Aquinas College from which the fire was named. At its height, the Thomas Fire saw over 8,500 firefighters mobilized to fight it, which is the largest mobilization of firefighters for combating any wildfire in California history. īy January 2, 2018, the Thomas Fire had cost over $204 million to fight, and had forced over 104,607 residents to evacuate. Ventura's agriculture industry suffered at least $171 million in losses due to the Thomas Fire. As of August 2020, the Thomas Fire is California's tenth-most destructive wildfire. The Thomas Fire destroyed at least 1,063 structures, while damaging 280 others and the fire caused over $2.2 billion (2018 USD) in damages, including $230 million in suppression costs, becoming the seventh-most destructive wildfire in state history at the time. The fire was officially declared out on June 1, 2018, after more than two months in which no hotspots were detected. The fire is currently the seventh-largest wildfire in modern California history, as of 2021. It was surpassed by the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex, in August 2018. It burned approximately 281,893 acres (440 sq mi 114,078 ha) before being fully contained on January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in modern California history at the time. The Thomas Fire was a massive wildfire that affected Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and one of multiple wildfires that ignited in southern California in December 2017. His research interests at Scripps Oceanography include landscape and seascape evolution in response to tectonic deformation, sea-level fluctuations, climate, neotectonics, and geohazards.Progression of the Thomas Fire, by December 25, 2017 in geology and geophysics from Columbia University and worked as an associate research scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, MA before joining UC San Diego in 2000. Driscoll has also appeared in articles published by The Associated Press, The New York Times, CBS News, The Los Angeles Times, KGTV, KPBS and other notable news outlets.ĭriscoll received his Ph.D. ![]() He has published more than 120 manuscripts in high impact peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Nature Geoscience, Geology, and the Journal of Geophysical Research on subjects ranging from earthquake hazards to devastating wildfires., He has received multiple awards during his career, including the Heezen and Storke Awards for excellence in research and UC San Diego’s inaugural Undergraduate Teaching Award. Neal Driscoll is the principal investigator of the ALERTCalifornia program at the University of California San Diego, where he is a professor of geology and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.ĭriscoll’s background in natural hazard research traces back more than 35 years. ![]()
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