After a hellish, day-long firefight on Saturday, the Thomas Fire calmed down overnight, with the smoke clearing overhead in places and the stars coming out very early Sunday morning.
Winds were just low enough for one night-flying helicopter to make water drops onto Montecito hot spots until about 12:30 a.m. It was being fed water from pump trucks at Viola Fields in Carpinteria, reported Alys Martinez of KEYT — which broadcast all night without commercials, as it had the weekend before.
The evacuation maps have not changed as of 8:30 a.m.