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...center of town had barely been saved; the remains of Sean Penn's $4 million home were not yet cool; 75-ft. flames were still roaring through the canyon when Ron Ablott's men hit the charred hills above Malibu. Crawling on their hands and knees, occasionally slipping a minuscule piece of ash into a plastic bag, they obviously belonged there. But unlike thousands of public employees battling the conflagration below, they were not concerned with fighting fires, at least not any burning currently. They were engaged in a manhunt...
However, you can sentence only those you catch. By the Malibu fire's third day, Ablott and his crew, analyzing burn and wind patterns, had located the fire's ground zero within 4 ft. and ascertained that its author had not used an accelerant, like gasoline. But their best lead -- several witnesses had seen two men in a blue pickup truck racing away from ground zero -- turned out to be a bust. By Thursday Ablott's team had interviewed the men, who could prove they not only had alerted neighbors to the fire's existence but had tried to extinguish...
...first flame was reported at 1:19 Tuesday afternoon, off the 16th tee of a golf course in Thousand Oaks, north of Malibu. Authorities suspect arson; in any case, the fire moved through the canyons in classic fashion, licking the resort community's border and eventually destroying 35 homes on 35,000 sparsely populated acres. Then early the next morning, 60 miles east, it seems a homeless Chinese immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame...
...Patrick's Roadhouse, a hot-dog stand turned diner that sits at show- business ground zero, on the Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Hollywood, fresh slabs of bacon sputter on the grill while movie moguls gossip about the wife of a top studio executive and a national politician. The interior is pure beachfront eclectic, crammed with mismatched furniture, bullhorns, rubber snakes, paintings of World War II flying aces, antique mirrors, numberless pieces of nautical kitsch. It's not only the campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive...
...slightly damaged drawing by Michelangelo, Holy Family with the Infant Baptist on the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, brought $6.32 million at auction at Christie's in London -- a world record for an old-master drawing. The buyer was the supremely well endowed J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California...