A fast-moving brush fire that broke out near Los Angeles’ Getty Center museum has grown to consume more than 400 acres in the hills around Interstate 405, near some of the city's most expensive homes
LOS ANGELES - Wind-whipped flames chased thousands of residents from some of Los Angeles’ wealthiest neighborhoods and threatened the famed Getty Center museum on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wildfire season that has triggered mass evacuations and power outages across California.
At least five homes had burned down, but no injuries were reported, Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a news conference along with fire officials, warning that he expected property losses to rise. Kathleen Crandell, a 33-year-old resident of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood adjacent to sprawling parkland in L.A.’s coastal foothills, said she managed to grab her two cats and a handful of other belongings as she fled in her first-ever evacuation.
Officials at the Getty art museum said the fire was burning north of the building, which was designed with thick stone walls to protect its treasures from flames. Sonoma County has been hardest hit in the latest spate of more than a dozen California wildfires, with more than 100 square miles burned and 190,000 people evacuated in a blaze dubbed the Kincade Fire.
The cause of the Kincade remained under investigation, although Pacific Gas and Electric Co has acknowledged the blaze ignited near a damaged high-voltage transmission tower at about the time a malfunction of the line occurred.
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