Two-acre brush fire burning near Getty Center [Updated]

A brush fire is burning near the Getty Center in Brentwood.

According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, fire crews are dealing with a 2-acre blaze burning in heavy brush at 1200 Getty Center Drive.

[Updated at 1:17 p.m.: Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said 55 firefighters are on the scene and that he was not aware of any structures immediately threatened.]

This is the same general area where a large brush fire burned through last year, forcing the closure of the 405 Freeway. That fire brought a huge fire department response, and no structures were damaged.

-- Ruben Vives

Comments

[LA Times FAIL]

I love how you guys hide this story -- I only come to this site for local news and you always bury stuff that has immediacy. You guys are a bunch of total idiots. Who edits the site? Good Lord you all deserve to be laid off. What a joke.

[Donald H]

There must be too much vegetation growing in this area between dry seasons. Looks like this would be a prime area for an annual controlled burn.

[Mike H]

Its a disgrace that the city asks for money from the Jackson family. The cops shouldn't even be paid hourly and that would get rid of over-time. The costs should be fixed and not fluctuate per event.

If the city cops can't figure out how to pay for the security then they shouldn't provide it. Its just a waste of money anyway. If you go to an event, you do it with a certain amount of risk. Why are these cops blowing our money to stand in streets, sidewalks, ect. "directing people". We don't need that. If something were to happen, well I guess they would just have to be on call.

STOP WASTING GOOD MONEY ON SUPERFLUOUS SECURITY. Don't get me started on the 100 cops at every festival!

[Spanky M]

@LATF: What are you talking about? It is on the front page with a picture as of at most 30 minutes after your post and 45 minutes after the original post.

[dvz]

What a great idea to put an art museum right in the middle of land that has high fire danger and seismic activy. Brilliant. .

[Mark]

Im in Northridge the smoke here is really bad. I have ashes landing on my mouse pad as I type this..

[KarenJ]

Why SHOULDN'T the Jackson family pay for expenses?

Every other family that loses a loved one pays, I don't believe you people thinking our city that is so overburdened with debit OWE it to MJ's family to pay his costs. How about the promoters who want to charge $25 cough up the money.

And as for you knuckleheads commenting about the police and flat pay and who needs them at events. You are probably the ones they really need to be there to police in the first place! If violence were to errupt at an event, you would all be the FIRST to point the finger and say WHERE WERE THE COPS? WHAT DO WE PAY THEM FOR? Please your comments are ridiculous!

By the way people....... Are you aware of the Nuke issues in North Korea and missles being fired as you all moan about who will pay for MJ's Memorial????? Hello - Cmon' already-

[Ray]

What site can I use to donate to the fire fighting efforts.. Will Getty get a bill? California and LA is a total JOKE! God help us all!! We need to get out of this $...hit hole of a State

[cryora]

I was just there today - hours before the fire even happened!... I hope my presence didn't do anything to uh.... create any sort of chain reaction or bad-luck, voodoo jinxing that may have started the fire. All I did was getting lost while driving and entered the Getty Center, but made a U-turn at the entrance and left. It's good the firemen responded quickly. I guess security was alert. Though it sucked having to drive local all the way back home instead of using the freeway. Good thing I had my trusty GPS.

[Robert]

So, because he was rich the taxpayer has to pay the bill?.
Frankly , the Jackson family or Michael's estate should pay the bills for services related to and stemming from his passing, just like every other family does, whether they can afford it or not. That family can certainly afford it. We can't.To those folks that have short term memories; we pay for cops to stand around at large events because an ounce of prevention is worth many tons of cure when it comes to people getting out of control at events. BY then its TOO LATE.