Inside the dash to save the Getty Villa from the Palisades fire: A timeline
The Getty Villa activated its emergency operations center at 10:40 a.m. Tuesday, and within two hours, the fast-moving blaze ...
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17 employees helped save the Getty Villa from the fires. They're telling other museums how it was done
Getty’s Emergency Planning Specialist Les Borsay arrived at the Getty Villa in Malibu. “This was not normally a day I would ...
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Inside the Getty museums’ defense against the L.A. wildfires
Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades ... the Manets and Monets — remained inside. This was no gamble, though. Those familiar with the Getty describe it as a place ...
The Getty Villa survived LA's firestorms while the area around it burned, revealing a key lesson for homeowners
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.
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Workers fight Getty fires
On Jan. 7, the day the Palisades Fire began, more than a dozen Getty staffers used emergency preparation tactics to help save the Getty Villa from going up in flames. Now, other museums want to know ...
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The Extraordinary Defense of the Getty Museum Against the L.A. Fires
the older Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, which arrays antiquities in a space designed to evoke a Roman country house, and the newer white-stone Getty Center in Brentwood where Vincent van ...
Samaritan scofflaws: they broke the law to stay inside the fire zone, but saved houses and helped neighbors
Steve and Colton Foster may have saved 10 homes by ignoring fire evacuation orders in Pacific Palisades. Now they're nurturing fire refugees and residents who stayed in the neighborhood near the Getty ...
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Los Angeles Getty Center’s priceless collection braces for wildfires as evacuation order expands to museum
The Getty Villa, which houses the trust’s educational ... It houses more than 125,000 pieces of art and 1.4 million documents. The artwork inside the museum’s galleries can be blocked off ...
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Inside the Getty museums' defense against the L.A. wildfires
Blazes nearly surrounded the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades ... the Manets and Monets — remained inside. This was no gamble, though. Those familiar with the Getty describe it as a place ...
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The Getty Villa survived LA's firestorms while the area around it burned, revealing a key lesson for homeowners
The Getty Villa is part of the J ... which also helped protect the precious art inside. But it wasn't just expensive architecture and state-of-the-art firefighting that helped.