Oops! Sorry.
Curiouser and curiouser... how many hours away did the guard live in the SoCal mountains, to be ‘snowed-in’? Are there snowy mtns in SoCal? Taft is just inland from coast, and mtns in pics I’ve seen are several hours (west) away. I’m still poking around on topo maps. Now, all articles’ mention of ‘snowed-in’ school guard have disappeared.