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Taran Tactical is directly below the Library to the right (North) in that photo. I hope their building and range did not burn.
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Just returned from a quick visit to San Diego. Local radio there paints a damningly vivid picture of the electric power monopoly's role in California wildfires. Hardly liberal/anti-big business, KFI 640 in Los Angeles specifically characterizes most wildfire deaths in California as murder by a blindly profit-hungry PG&E.
With that perspective filling my ears, I drove east and saw skinny wooden power poles swaying in the wind, looking ancient, gray, dry and fragile - like tinder. This was all waving above parched yellow weeds and crisp, flammable ground cover. In my friend's community (Alpine, CA) the power was off and not expected to return for at least another day until the wind subsided.
Meanwhile, an electrical power expert I know opines that PG&E cannot be blamed for any fires, because any break in the line, or grounding to earth, will trip a reset and kill power until the line is repaired. I beg to differ, recalling more than a few times over decades around the SW hills of Portland seeing downed power lines whipping and sparking on the ground. Most impressive in the dark.
The big difference here would be that this normally happens during heavy rain, snow and ice storms.