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but not seeing the extent of the damage, the cameras were taking close up pics and reporting a "fire" as a result of attempted arrests.

I also remembering the burning down of the Black Panthers house in LA during police action, and later, Waco massive fire.

Then... December 8, 1984, there was a massive FBI/local police shootout when the Feds tried to capture Robert Jay Mathews,
leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group. He burned to death during an intense gunfight with approximately seventy-five federal law enforcement agents who surrounded his house on Whidbey Island, near Freeland, Washington.

Here's the thing....that was a block from where I lived, in Greenbank, Whidbey Island.( I moved down South exactly 2 years later)
I happened to be coming up the road from the grocery store, hit a roadblock, car was searched, then I was told to go home and lock my door, some guy was loose and wanted by the FBI.
But...they already knew he was in the cabin, and were not letting anyone onto the road. No witnesses, people living on the road were removed by the police.
( There were not many people, it was very rural)
And there were 2 fire trucks at the road entrance, hours before the shooting started.

i could hear the noise clearly that afternoon.
They burned the cabin down, the guy died of smoke, not a bullet would on him.