CA Mudslides: Death Toll Rises To 21

MONTECITO, CA -- The death toll from the California mudslides increased to 21 on Saturday after rescuers found a woman's body. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's officials announced that the body of 28-year-old Faviola Benitez Calderon was found around 10 a.m. Saturday.

Calderon's body was located in the 100 block of Santo Tomas Lane near Olive Mill Road and above Coast Village Road, officials said. Calderon's 10-year-old son Jonathan Benitez, 3-year-old cousin Kailly Benitez, as well as Kailly’s mother, 27-year-old Marilyn Ramos, were also killed in the Jan. 9 mudslides.

The mudslides devastated Montecito, a small unincorporated seaside town in Santa Barbara County, weeks after the largest wildfire in California history scorched through the region.

In a Facebook post, officials said two people, 2-year-old Lydia Sutthithepa and 17-year-old Jack Cantin, remain missing.

"Search and recovery teams, with the assistance of 16 Human Remains Detection dog teams, from throughout the state are working together this weekend in an effort to locate the missing victims and bring closure to their families," officials wrote on Facebook.

As of Saturday evening, the 21 victims include:

Faviola Benitez Calderon, 28
Jonathan Benitez, 10
Kailly Benitez, 3
Joseph Francis Bleckel, 87
Martin Cabrera-Munoz, 48
David Cantin, 49
Morgan Corey, 25
Sawyer Corey, 12
Peter Fleurat, 73
Josephine Gower, 69
John McManigal, 61
Alice Mitchell, 78
James Mitchell, 89
Caroline Montgomery, 22
Mark Montgomery, 54
Marilyn Ramos, 27
Rebecca Riskin, 61
Roy Rohter, 84
Pinit Sutthithepa, 30
Peerawat Sutthithepa, 6
Richard Loring Taylor, 79

--Photo: People attend a candlelight vigil in Santa Barbara, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, to pay tribute to the people who were killed when mudslides ravaged a Southern California. (AP Photo/Mike Balsamo)

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