Firefighters were working Monday to contain a fast-moving brush fire that scorched the

western edge of Los Angeles, as officials warned that ferocious winds could arrive later
in the week and worsen the blaze.
After consuming roughly 618 acres, the Getty Fire was 5 percent contained and had “not
grown at all” since midday Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) said in an
evening news conference. Officials reopened a 6.5-mile stretch of Interstate 405, which
had been shut down most of the day and allowed residents to return to a small sliver of a
mandatory evacuation zone north of the city’s Brentwood Park neighborhood.
But Garcetti cautioned that the situation could flip at any moment if the flames pick up.
“We could in some places maybe have some people return tonight only to pull them
away tomorrow in the middle of the night,” he said.
The heavy Santa Ana winds that drove the Getty Fire early Monday had tamed by
midday, leaving officials cautiously optimistic about their ability to curb the blaze. But
even stronger winds were expected to return Tuesday night and pummel the region
throughout the day Wednesday. A combination of single-digit humidity and gusts
reaching 80 mph could swiftly bring back tinderbox conditions, as The Washington
Post’s Capital Weather Gang reported.