MONTECITO, Calif. — A doctor and his daughter who died in the arms of her brother were among the 19 people killed in mudslides that brought tragedy and sorrow to the coastal community of Montecito.

Other victims included a mother asleep with her 3-year-old daughter as her 10-year-old nephew slumbered nearby, and a woman and her husband of more than 50 years who had celebrated his birthday the day before.

Here are some of the stories:

Dr. Mark Montgomery, 54, and his family returned from a Brazilian vacation two days before the mudslide that killed him and daughter Caroline came crashing into their two-story home.

Montgomery’s wife and elder daughter had left for a business trip to New York soon after returning home Sunday. He stayed behind with Caroline, 22, who had just graduated from college, and his son, Duffy, 20.

The three were asleep before dawn Tuesday when the mudslide slammed into their home. Montgomery, sleeping downstairs, was swept away.

His daughter, sleeping upstairs, was engulfed in mud and other debris. As Duffy tried to save her she died in his arms, said Dr. Michael Behrman, a family friend. Her brother suffered a broken shoulder blade and other injuries.

Behrman had been staying in the Montgomery home while they vacationed, his own home having burned down during the wildfire that struck the area last month.

“Having a house burned down and losing all your stuff doesn’t seem like a very big deal now,” he said. “It’s losing Mark and his daughter and the utter devastation of the area that has gone along with that. I, like everybody here, knew several of the other people who died.”

Marilyn Ramos was asleep in bed with her 3-year-old daughter, Kaelly Benitez, when the mudslide came crashing through their rental home, carrying both to their deaths.

Also killed was Kaelly’s 10-year-old cousin, Jonathan Benitez, who was asleep nearby.

Marilyn’s husband, Antonio Benitez, was injured, as was his brother, Victor, who is Jonathan’s father. Victor’s 2-year-old son survived, but his wife, Faviola Benitez Calderon, 28, was missing.

The brothers, immigrants from Mexico, owned a gardening and landscaping business in Montecito. Marilyn was a stay-at-home mom.

“My sister was such a good person, she only thought of others to the point that she would cry with you when you were hurt or sick,” Jennifer Ramos said between sobs as she spoke by phone from her home in Mexico.

The mudslide decimated the family of Pinit Sutthithepa, killing his 6-year-old son, Peerawat, and stepfather, Richard Loring Taylor, 79. Sutthithepa and his 6-year-old daughter, Lydia, are missing.

“At 4 a.m. the house was obliterated by mud, boulders and rushing water. Literally nothing is left,” Mike Caldwell, Sutthithepa’s boss at Toyota of Santa Barbara, wrote on a GoFundMe page seeking help for the family.

His wife and mother were working at the time. Another relative was rescued by firefighters.

“This family has lost everything but the clothes they were wearing,” Caldwell wrote.

Sutthithepa immigrated from Thailand, leaving behind his wife and two children but sending them money for years until he could bring them to the United States, a friend, Poy Sayavongs, told the Lee Central Coast News.

“They finally were able to make it to the states in the summer of 2016,” Sayavongs said. “It’s cruel — they only had a short time together before this tragedy struck.”

A month earlier, the family had evacuated to a Red Cross shelter for a night as the devastating wildfire threatened their home.

“I would’ve never imagined Peerawat would’ve been killed by the mudslides, when they were able to survive the Thomas fire,” family friend Kevin Touly told the Central Coast News. “We’re just so heartbroken.”

Peter Fleurat was at home with his partner of 17 years during Tuesday’s storm when the couple felt the floor beneath them shake and roll.

Moments later, a wall of mud burst through their walls and swept him and Ralph “Lalo” Barajas away.

“The last thing Peter yelled out to me was, ‘Lalo, grab onto some wood and don’t let go,’?” Barajas told CBS News. “That was the last I heard of him.”

Barajas was rescued, treated for cuts, bruises and a sprained neck and released from a Santa Barbara hospital. He searched for his partner until he got the news that he had died.

Jim and Alice Mitchell had been married for more than 50 years and had just celebrated Jim’s 89th birthday when they were swept away along with their dog Gigi.

Jim, who worked in labor relations, and Alice, a schoolteacher, had moved to Montecito in 1995 after raising their two children in Orange County.

“They’re an adorable couple, and they were in love with their house,” their daughter, Kelly Weimer, said before learning they had died.

The Mitchells are survived by their two children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Rebecca Riskin was the picture of success and health before she was killed.

Her firm, Riskin Partners, credited the former ballerina with having closed more than $2 billion in high-end real estate sales since she founded the company in the early 1990s.

“She’s leaving a huge void. She was exceptional,” said Gina Conte, who described Riskin, 61, as her best friend, mentor and confidante.

Conte said Riskin, who was the maid of honor at her wedding, took joy in pairing the perfect home with the perfect family and loved cooking, going for long walks and spending movie nights with her family.

Riskin was swept away after the mudslide tore through her living room, Conte said, adding that Riskin’s husband survived because he was in bed in a part of the house that stayed intact. Her body was found Wednesday near a highway.

Riskin is survived by her husband, two grown children and a grandson.

Lauren Cantin became the face of survival when rescuers pulled the mud-covered 14-year-old girl from her flattened home. Authorities said her father, David, 49, died and her 17-year-old brother, Jack, is missing.

David Cantin was vice president of global sales for a leading developer of instruments used by surgeons. Cantin’s company, NDS Surgical Imaging, developed some of the medical industry’s earliest digital imaging technologies for minimally invasive surgery.

He also was a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts.

His house was destroyed by the mudslide that buried his daughter for hours before firefighters could rescue her.

“I thought I was dead for a minute,” she told them before an ambulance took her away.

Her mother, Kim, also was rescued.