As the fire quickly spreads across the area, multiple people have left their cars and fled on foot. Traffic is gridlocked as people evacuate the neighborhood, and bulldozers have pushed 30 abandoned vehicles to clear a path for fire crews and evacuations on Palisades Drive and Sunset Boulevard .

A fast-moving fire threatened the Getty Villa Museum amid an ongoing in the Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles.

While it's normally closed to the public on Tuesdays, the Getty Villa extended its closure to next week amid the Palisades Fire.

The Getty Villa caught fire on Tuesday as a blaze continued tearing through the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. The museum and its staff were not harmed, according to a statement issued today by the Getty,

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The Getty Villa Museum is "catching on fire" according to sources monitoring the spread of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire tearing through LA. Please check back regularly for updates on this developing story HERE.

By Tuesday, those winds had already fanned several blazes across the Los Angeles area, and by 3:30 p.m. local time, Pacific Palisades, a coastal neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles, saw a 300 acre fire spread to more than 1,