NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab still ‘untouched’ by raging LA fires | News World

NASA’s famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has weathered the firestorm so far.

The raging Eaton fire has devastated Altadena and other neighborhoods at the feet of the San Gabriel Mountains just north of Los Angeles. However, firefighters have managed to keep the flames away from JPL, NASA’s lead center for planetary exploration, which lies just to the west.

“UPDATE: @NASAJPL is untouched by fire due to the brave dedication of our first responders. But our community has been very seriously impacted, with over 150 JPLers who have lost their homes and many more displaced,” JPL Director Laurie Leshin said via X today (Jan. 10).

Leshin’s X post included a link to a disaster-relief fundraising site devoted to helping those JPL folks, as well as people based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, which manages the center for NASA.

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