The Getty Villa has caught fire in the wind-driven fire burning out of control in Pacific Palisades, according to Los Angeles Fire Department radio traffic.

The Getty Villa remained standing as fires razed homes around it. Getty staff have been doing simple yard work all year that homeowners should follow.

In 1974, oil magnate J Paul Getty opened a museum of his holdings in a faux villa in Malibu, based on the remains of the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum. Derision from critics and ridicule from ...

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, at about 7 a.m., the Getty’s Emergency Planning Specialist Les Borsay arrived at the Getty Villa in Malibu. “This was not normally a day I would have necessarily been out ...

On Jan. 7, the day the Palisades Fire began, more than a dozen Getty staffers used emergency preparation tactics to help save the Getty Villa from going up in flames. Now, other museums want to ...

The Getty Villa, an education center at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades, had trees and vegetation around it burned, but the building itself is intact, Getty officials ...

Two days before the Palisades fire erupted, Preston Martin parked the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 on a flat spot up the hill from the Getty Villa NBC Universal ... parked it in a Malibu neighborhood ...

Situated along the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Rosenthal Wine Bar ... memories at the seaside establishment. The Getty Villa, a slice of ancient Rome nestled in the Pacific ...

The Palisades fire in California has burned through thousands of acres since breaking out Tuesday between Malibu and Santa Monica, but the iconic Getty Villa, which lay in its path, has remained ...

The villa isn't your average home, but homeowners can learn from the Getty staff's fire prep. The Palisades fire in California has burned through thousands of acres since breaking out Tuesday between ...