Flames made it to within 6 feet of the Getty Villa and yet it survived. Inside the museum’s powerful tools for disaster preparedness.

As fire officials issued evacuation orders for the Brentwood neighborhood on Friday night, the museum's collection remained safely inside the Getty Center's fortress of travertine stone, fire-protected steel and reinforced concrete.

They take fire prevention extremely seriously at the J. Paul Getty Museum's two campuses in Los Angeles, and those efforts paid off last week when the Palisades fire came within 6 feet of the Getty Villa's eastern wall.