> The house was gone, consumed by the November 2018 Woolsey Fire. I met Charlie Santore, a licensed safecracker, flanked by two Ventura County sheriff’s deputies. They had been patrolling the neighborhood in the wake of the still-active wildfire, and Santore’s car, so overloaded with safecracking equipment that its trunk nearly scrapes the ground, was, from a law-enforcement point of view, not reassuring.
While the deputies confirmed his technician’s license, Santore asked one of them to act like he was under arrest. “Fight the power!” Santore joked. As he laughed, I took a picture. Even t…