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Getty Center Closes as Fire Breaks Out Along Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway

Getty Center Closes as Fire Breaks Out Along Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway


Los Angeles’s Getty Center closed early on Wednesday after a fire broke out along the 405 Freeway.

Per the Los Angeles Times, the fire was reported to the city’s Fire Department at 4:30 p.m.; it has already burned five acres. The Fire Department has issued an evacuation warning for an area that includes the Getty Center, a complex that includes museum buildings host to Renaissance and Old Master paintings, the Getty Research Institute, and a Robert Irwin–designed garden.

According to CBS News, the Getty Center asked visitors to exit through the parking garage and closed the museum at 4:45 p.m. “The Getty Center is closed due to a nearby fire,” reads a notice on the museum’s website.



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