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COMMENTS: Celebrities & Monks Both Singed
All three newscasts had correspondents clad in yellow firefighting jackets along the lines in Montecito, the canyon of celebrity mansions outside Santa Barbara. It is the season for hot, dry Santa Ana winds to blow in from the desert so the fires were no surprise. The news consisted of the cold comfort that even the rich and famous are vulnerable to the vicissitudes of nature. CBS' Ben Tracy called Montecito "an enclave of multimillion dollar homes"…ABC's Brian Rooney found an area where "celebrities and wealthy people have getaways"…NBC's Mark Mullen measured "four square miles of multimillion dollar estates."
Besides the rich, CBS' Tracy told us that the blaze destroyed a mountaintop monastery.
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