
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
CHULA VISTA - Superior Court Commissioner Gary S. Bloch once considered a career in firefighting.
As a member of an elite U.S. Forest Service crew in the mid-1970s, Bloch and his fellow Arizona-based "hotshots" battled stubborn wildfires throughout the Western United States.
Then one day as he and his buddies huddled on top of a mountain in Central California, plotting strategies to surround an o... (continued)