Hundreds evacuated from Getty museum complex, college as brush fire burns on slopes above LA

LOS ANGELES — Visitors to the Getty Center art complex, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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