Award-winning journalist, Melinda Burns, has been looking into the science of the 1/9 Debris Flow in Montecito. To mark the one-year anniversary of the tragedy, Burns and retired television executive, Hap Freund, have released a documentary that speaks with survivors, and reveals evidence that this isn't the first major debris flow to hit the area in the past century.

You can view the 20 minute documentary here:
https://www.edhat.com/news/survivors-featured-in-montecito-debris-flow-documentary

(Photo courtesy of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum)