After nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, walking among more than a thousand exhibits at the World Ag Expo was a long-awaited return to community interaction for Joel and Ethan Munoz.
As Kyle Gordon drives past downtown Santa Barbara the Pacific Ocean beckons. Barely two months into his new job as a fire manager for Southern California Edison he has been on the road for 36 days hopscotching a state peppered with hundreds of fires.