California fires: Your pictures

BBC News website readers have been sending us their pictures of the wildfires. Brian Bargiel took this picture from Northridge Drive in Santa Barbara...

...here a helicopter fights the flames in Santa Barbara. Photo: Brian Bargiel.

The view from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Photo: Sourav Das.

The main street in Santa Barbara was covered by smoke. Michael Dev says the smoke was in the east, 90 degrees from the mountains. Photo: Michael Dev.

Helena Day Breese moved to California 20 years ago. "There's a big misty, mass of red smoke, and when the wind picks up a huge smoky cloud hangs over the town like a Damocles - it's horrifying...

...this morning the ash on my patio was as thick and white as snow and it is still raining down."

UK exchange student Jonathan Crass said although they can see smoke and smell fumes coming over the University of California campus, everyone is carrying on as normal...

... the fires illuminated the night sky above Santa Barbara. Photo: Jonathan Crass. Send your photos to [email protected]. For terms and conditions see right.