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Mayur
@mayurzzz
The Getty Villa museum's building escaped unharmed from the Pacific Palisades fire. Turns out the way to save your home requires: -- irrigation deployed on the grounds (Getty must have had their own private water source) -- state-of-the-art air handling systems that seal off smoke indoors -- double-walled construction
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LA Banker
@LA_Banker
The Getty Villa does have its own private water source and also engages in brush management along its perimeter. The Getty Center has an even more robust safety systems.
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Mayur
@mayurzzz
Amazing. I read that the trees and vegetation around their property are burnt. Yet the structure is intact. Incredible.
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Mayur
@mayurzzz
Their natural disaster preparedness team has to be proud of themselves. Although the devastation around that area is heart breaking.
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GoldenPoppy
@Califqueen7
The villa was the drop off for the ships smuggling people and goods. At least the coastal drop off is gone. To bad the museum is ok but that means there's evidence still I guess.
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Annalisa Fernandez
@BecauseCulture
If everyone did brush management the situation would be different. My Oregon HOA requires me to annually do lot clean up and ladder reduction, or they do it for me and charge me $3,000. So people do it.
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Mary Margaret Cooke
@DixieDownLow
It would be required by the insurance companies to cover the art inside. My mother’s home survived the Cedars Fire in 2003 because she lived on a golf course and they ran the sprinklers full time and an arroyo across from the house.
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Jill McClellan
@JillBugs41570
How many of their fire mitigation measures were unavailable to the Californians who subsidize the Getty due to various 'climate change' restrictions? Or the prioritization of smelt over people? Or onerous building codes, which force Californians to put compliance over safety?
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Scott D. Witt
@scottdwitt
( FYI ) Firefighters will tell you that irrigation doesn't protect structures. You'll hear stories of burnt out structures surrounded by a wet, emerald green lawn
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Víctor Bridges-Ruiz, Ph.D.
@LooveThyJourney
I remember passing through there a few years ago. Many years ago I worked at Bony Pony Ranch. My impression has always been that the hills are way too dry from there to TO. And same thing with the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Just not enough rain, unfortunately.
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BYF_Resurrected
@BYF_Resurrected
I always loved visiting the Getty Villa. Such a beautiful set of buildings and grounds. I'm glad to learn that it survived. Many artifacts that are priceless from an historical standpoint.
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Denis F.
@denisfabre
There are no miracles, but there are effective solutions: Clearing undergrowth Burying power lines Reinforcing water supplies Fire cut-off and control plan Training the population Having heavy resources and trained firefighters soldiers. Not prisoners. As in France or Spain
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Jessica
@j__l__t__f
This is pretty common in Australia where properties are on their own tank water and have systems set up for when bushfire looms. We've learned a lot from the past.
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Justine N Lawson🇺🇦
@justinenlawson
The Getty Villa, like the Getty Museum has comprehensive property infrastructure. The Museum both have their own water tanks and they do clear brush to mitigate fire damage. Found this on NBC today:
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Andrew T. Clark
@AndrewTeeClark
Have you come across any info on these “state-of-the-art air handling systems”? My job is as a design engineer including for many museums and I highly suspect this is an artifact of a reporter embellishing. They likely just closed dampers.
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LK
@l_k_l12
No, the firefighters were told to prioritize the museum over the surrounding structures.
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