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Federal investigators appeared to be on the verge of a major announcement this week, perhaps related to Fedbuster. Ablott was sifting through some 100 phone messages from the anonymous "We-Tip" hotline of the sheriff's department and was interested in interviewing a 22-year-old man arrested in Laguna Beach in possession of a police scanner, phony fire department IDs and a fire fighter's uniform. Meanwhile, three members of the Arson Profiler Program are quietly pulling 18-hour days at the ATF offices in L.A.'s World Trade Center. Founded in 1986, the program has dispatched staff members...
...Wednesday night, the road to Gary Pattengill's house in Laguna Beach looks like something out of a Balkan war zone. The Pacific Coast Highway is wreathed in billows of ebony smoke. "My God!" Pattengill exhales, watching flames engulf a nearby luxury residence that had once boasted a killer view of the Pacific. Along the highway stand some of the Laguna Beach refugees. They have packed all the belongings they could salvage and are now stranded -- in their Mercedes-Benz and Cherokees...
...dude, you need some help?' And about five other guys came over and started helping too." He gazes through the haze and flames at another building, still standing. "That belongs to a friend of mine. It's worth more than a million dollars. Have you ever been to Laguna? It's one of the most exclusive areas to live...
...Oakland fire killed 25 people. Through skill and luck, this outbreak was different. Police in Laguna Beach avoided traffic jams through a "cascading" system of evacuation in stages, and made sure to route people down the safest roads, rather than the shortest ones. The communities threatened this time were smaller than Oakland, the logistics easier. Thus by the end of the week, although the fires had made 25,000 Californians homeless and injured 84, they seemed not to have claimed a single life. "By God," sighs Laguna Beach Police Captain Bill Cavenaugh, "we didn't lose anybody...
Night has come to Laguna Beach, and with it, cool, wet breezes from the sea. Although more Santa Anas are predicted and many of the state's fires continue to rage, this particular furnace has been banked. That is small solace to the groups of people, who, at 1 a.m., are already dodging police blockades to sift through the ashes and weep. A nighttime wanderer seeks out Skyline Drive -- once a noble address -- and finds a row of unconnected stone chimneys, naked and alone as tombstones and lit by the bluish flames of broken gas mains...