Grasslands and Getty

The Getty Villa was surrounded by engulfing flames during the worst of the Palisades fire, but the J. Paul Getty Trust—which has the largest endowment of any museum on earth, with some $8 billion in the coffers—said that the museum was able to escape with minimal damage and that its thousands of artworks were safe. Key to its survival were constant mitigation through year-round brush-clearing, as the museum knew that fire could come at any minute, and a war room set up Tuesday morning to direct the 16 staffers on the ground at the Villa. The galleries also have double walls, which help protect the 44,000-plus objects at the Villa, some of which are Greek, Roman, and Etruscan ruins dating back to 6,500 BC. And when the fires did reach the pedestrian gate, fire extinguishers were used to put it out in just a few minutes. You can read the full tick-tock over at the Los Angeles Times.

grasslands

save the getty villa

people forget

 san francisco money

nature of the place

stop blaming politicians for the los angeles wildires

a discontinuity in the people

an incongruence in rates of change

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the left behinds