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    Getty fire becomes a spectacle that underscores LA's inherent dangers

    by Brittny Mejia, Matthew Ormseth, Hannah Fry and Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times Oct 29, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The cantilevered palaces of Los Angeles' elite were under siege. "Apocalypse bags" were packed. LeBron James fled with his family and couldn't find a hotel room. News copters filmed the fire copters, as drivers on the 405 Freeway sailed through the fiery vortex and lived to Instagram it.

    The Getty fire broke out along the freeway by Getty Center Drive after 1:30 am Monday and blew up to more than 600 acres under Santa Ana winds, destroying eight homes and damaging five in Los Angeles' Brentwood section. Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate some of the priciest enclaves on Earth.

    In a week of fires up and down the state, the Getty was not the biggest or most destructive. But fires that break out in the Sepulveda Pass and roar up to the rich and famous

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