They had not been asked to evacuate, Lapin said, and they didn’t expect that to happen.“The Getty is an incredibly safe place for the art,” she said. At about 2 a.m., the museum began using that water to irrigate the property, Lapin said.Brush is cleared regularly, and plants with the highest water content are planted closest to the buildings, Lapin said. She loves dive bars and very dry martinis with olives, though never simultaneously.Despite some saying athletes should “Shut up and dribble,” taking stands is nothing new. When day broke, helicopters and air tankers began "an aggressive attack" on the flames, said Lapin.
Firefighters try to save a home on Tigertail Road during the Getty fire in Los Angeles on Monday morning. It quickly exploded to 618 acres by noon. Just two years ago during the Skirball Fire, a small fire started on the museum's adjoining hill.
It quickly exploded to 618 acres by noon. Firefighters work the Getty fire as it burns homes along Tigertail Road in the Brentwood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Visit our Los Angeles museums and library, interact with art, and access free research tools. It will look different to the north and the west.”The biggest concern, Lapin said, was the museum’s neighbors.“Some have lost their homes,” she said, “and that is tragic.”Lapin said the Getty Center in Brentwood and the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades will remain closed Tuesday to allow emergency responders the space they need.“We are safe, the fire is largely knocked down, but there are still hot spots,” Lapin said in a follow-up email midafternoon Monday. His design included safeguards for both earthquakes and fires.The complex includes 1.3 million square feet of thick travertine stone, a highly fire-resistant material that lines the museum buildings' outside walls. The Getty fire has forced evacuations and burned more than 600 acres. The Getty fire is a wind-driven brush fire that erupted about 1:30 a.m. along the 405. “We can use it for our own fire prevention,” Lapin said.The Center extends over 24 acres (10 hectares), and includes 1 million sq ft of buildings, and 300,000 travertine blocks.
The sun rises over smoke-filled canyons above the Getty Center and a burned home on Tigertail Road as the Getty fire burns in Los Angeles. The Getty has also pioneered techniques to keep objects safe from earthquakes, including special display cases and pedestals that move if the On Monday, parts of the Getty’s parking lots were being used by fire engines awaiting commands, and the sound of scooper helicopters soared above the museum – a good vantage point to see the fire licking parts of remote canyons nearby.The museum is normally closed to the public on Mondays. Here are 6 ways it might.Here’s our guide to MTV’s Video Music Awards honoring the past year’s best music videos in a semi-virtual ceremony presented Sunday.Fire trucks at a staging area on Sepulveda Boulevard near the Getty Center entrance. The museum's emergency operations center was activated.Heavy, double doors locked in place, hermetically sealing every gallery—including a current exhibition of irreplaceable Manet paintings—and archive zone.
Barn manager Stephanie Nagler leads a horse named Howie Doin to a horse trailer while helping to evacuate around 120 horses from the Sullivan Canyon Equestrian Community near the intersection of Rivera Ranch Road and Sunset Boulevard in Brentwood. "They're real heroes. Underneath the trees and grasses is a network of pipes, connected to a million-gallon water tank. Once the sun came up, it’s been quite aggressive in terms of planes and helicopters.”The museum’s emergency plans do not call for evacuating art. “It’s sealed and it’s secure. She once played bass in a band with an inexplicably large following in Spain, and still gets stopped by fans (OK, maybe a fan) on the streets of Barcelona. It was put out without incident, in part thanks to the Getty's massive irrigation system.“The safest place for the artwork to be is right here in the Getty Center,” then-vice president of communications for the J. Paul Getty Trust, Ron Hartwig, said at the time.On Monday, an even larger fire that bears the museum's name—the Getty Fire—was burning near its campus and forced thousands to evacuate the area.
The National Weather Service issued a rare “extreme red flag warning” for Southern California through Thursday evening, saying winds could top 80 mph and be the strongest in more than a decade.
As water-dropping helicopters buzzed above the center Monday, Lisa Lapin, the museum’s vice president of communications, said she was on site with Getty President James Cuno, Chief Operating Officer Steven A. Olsen and security and facilities personnel. But the museum, home to 1,000-year-old manuscripts, multimillion-dollar paintings and the world's largest art library, has no plans to evacuate its treasures. It spread south and west and quickly consumed more than 500 acres.