The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze ...

The Getty Villa opened in 1974 by Billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the ...

The recreated Roman villa, which often hosts high-profile events among the art, remained unharmed. According to Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the museum was ...

And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure that reputedly inspired Getty to built the museum in the design of a Roman villa. Upstairs, room 217 holds an ...

The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow.

The Getty Villa has caught fire in the wind-driven fire burning out of control in Pacific Palisades, according to Los Angeles ...

The Villa holds 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD within a re-created Roman country home. The Getty Villa will remain closed to the public through at ...

The Getty Villa, which is already closed to the public on Tuesdays, was “swiftly closed” to non-emergency staff after the fire started in the morning.

Flames made it to within 6 feet of the Getty Villa and yet it survived. Inside the museum’s powerful tools for disaster ...

As of Wednesday morning, the Palisades Fire had spread to thousands of acres (an updated count is still being conducted by fire officials) along the Los Angeles coastline, burning more than 1,000 ...

The Getty Villa is part of the J ... It houses the trust's collection of Ancient Greek and Roman art. Fire departments used "state-of-the-art air handling systems" to help protect the building ...