According to Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, another 13 people are still missing, as mudslides continue to wreak havoc in the Golden State.
As of early Wednesday, 300 people were trapped by debris blocking their way out of Montecito's Romero Canyon area.
The mudslides began around 2:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday after the region was hit with heavy rains, which dislodged boulders and set off a heavy mudflow, the LA Times reported.
On Tuesday, Brown told reporters that the scenes "looked like a World War I battlefield."