Students Evacuate as Getty Fire Burns Close to Campus

A brush fire started to burn near the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, on the morning of October 28, prompting numerous evacuation orders, according to reports.

The fire began to burn around 2 am and more than 10,000 homes were under evacuation order in the Mandeville Canyon, Bundy, and Mountain Gate areas.

The fire started on the west side of the heavily trafficked Interstate 405 and had burned 500 acres by 8 am PST, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Jessa Elena Bolompo is a student at Mount Saint Mary’s University, which is currently under an evacuation warning, and she managed to record video footage as she and her friends heeded the warnings and escaped the fire.

“Now we get the f—-ing alert,” one of Bolompo’s friends can be heard saying in the background, as the group of friends drives down Chanlon Road while the fire rages. “We all got the evacuation alerts AFTER we actually evacuated,” Bolompo told Storyful, although they had enough time to make it to safety.

The cause of the fire is unknown and there have been no injuries or deaths reported at the time of writing. Credit: Jessa Elena Bolompo via Storyful