Tens of thousands are evacuating as a wildfire rages in the Pacific Palisades: Updates

 

The worst of the weather is probably going to occur Tuesday evening through early Wednesday morning. She said, “The atmospheric blow dryer is really going to dry things out even further,”

Implying that the plants would grow drier the longer the wind conditions persist. “The reality is that there’s going to be a very long period of high fire risk.”

On Tuesday, the Pacific Palisades fire endangered thousands of buildings, including one of the world’s most cherished educational institutions and art museums.

As the rapidly spreading fire affected neighbourhoods along the Pacific Coast Highway, smoke was seen nearing the Getty Villa in social media photos and aerial imagery.

After the fire began earlier Tuesday, Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, said the villa site,

Which is already restricted to the public on Tuesdays, was “swiftly closed” to non-emergency personnel. The villa won’t be open until at least January 13.

 

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