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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 dash to save the Getty Villa from the Palisades fire: a timeline
The Getty Villa, the museum built by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and home to thousands of priceless antiquities, activated its emergency operations center in response to the fast-moving Palisades ...
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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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Getty Villa, Intact Despite Palisades Fire’s Fury, Yet To Reopen
I was fortunate enough to volunteer at the museum for several months while in high school, working in the Ranch House where Mr. Getty once lived, behind the villa. It is one thing to see Greek and ...
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Workers fight Getty fires
The Palisades Fire comes close to the Getty Villa. Read the full story On Tuesday ... “They could come inside for a second, get a drink of water, be inside for another 20 minutes or so and ...
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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.
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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 G ...
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How the Getty Museum survived LA wildfires as the super-rich take note
Inside, the galleries are designed as self ... Beneath the grounds of the Getty Villa lies a network of pipes that allow sprinklers to activate immediately. To mitigate earthquake risks, special ...
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Wildfire evacuations expand to Getty Center, one of Los Angeles' leading museums
Both the Getty Center and Getty Villa are closed until at least Jan ... no need to evacuate its artworks because they were safe inside the campus. "We have a very significant building here ...
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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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17 employees helped save the Getty Villa from the fires. They're telling other museums how it was done
“They could come inside for a second ... The next day, Getty CEO Katherine Fleming told news reporters the Villa remained safe and intact. Borsay had stayed the night, along with most others ...