if we had Directed Energy weapons, they would have put em to use on Shorty Kim. So it was just a huge azz fire and CA is a giant desert with a shite ton of dead stuff lying around just to go up in smoke. This is the story of the desert and CA. Just waiting for the next shoe to drop all the time there.
I melt stuff in camp fires all the time too, doesn’t take a huge fire.
And if the bad guys have these weapons, they’d use them on very strategic targets first. Not random neighborhoods. They’d nail us where it would hurt the most