The Getty Is, Like, On Fire Right Now Or Something
By La Verne Casagrande - Wednesday July 08th 2009
Watch out for that west side traffic snarl and seek ye local watering hole. KTLA says:
SEPULVEDA PASS — A fast moving brush fire has forced the evacuation of thousands of people from the world famous Getty Center art complex in the Sepulveda pass.
The fire has burned between 30 and 40 acres of dry brush at Getty Center Drive above Sunset Boulevard west of the 405 freeway, according to Los Angeles City fire spokesman Eric Scott.
Sepulveda Boulevard has been closed between Sunset Boulevard and Mulholland Drive, near the Skirball Center due to the fire.
Some 800 staff members and several thousand visitors have been evacuated from the Getty Center, according to Getty spokesman Ron Hartwig.
Wasn’t it just last year that we read a story about how clever the Getty was about brush clearance by hiring a couple of goathearders to live up on the hill and let their goats eat all of the brush? I suppose the story was better than the reality, huh? Or maybe budget cuts mandated cutbacks in salaries… of goats.
http://cbs2.com/local/goats.getty.center.2.717301.html
Glad to see the Losanjealous 2000 Breaking Action News Team keeping us connected with timely local coverage for out of towners! Even more glad to see the fire did not and will not touch the Getty itself (thankfully “or something”!) I recommend Bel Air Bar & Grill for a quick nip in the area, fire or no.
Here’s the pooper scooper: someone @ The Getty was told it was facing foreclosure. Rather than to risk the Ed McMahon treatment and await a bailout from Donald Trump, they got the party started and “mysteriously”
the roof caught ablaze. They just KNEW white folks had insurance. Pffffttttt.
Look, the Getty needed publicity. People consider peanut butter and jelly two meals now so they don’t have time or money to patronize The Getty. (Even if it’s free admission, you need gas money or bus fare.)
The Getty figured it could garner publicity on TMZ if it was in flames. After all, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and the Kardashian catastrophes are on fire and people log onto the Net daily to read about/follow them. If only the Getty could pose nude, release a sex tape or get a DUI, we’d actually give a damn.