At the height of the emergency, about 20% of the institution's 5,500 employees were evacuated from their homes, director Laurie Leshin said. About 210 employees lost their homes in the fire and an additional 100 - Leshin included - will likely be displaced long term by the extent of the damage to their house or neighborhood.
JPL manages the Deep Space Network, a global web of antennas that communicate with spacecraft traveling past Earth's moon. It's staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. "We practice twice a year what would happen if we had to relocate mission operations, [but] we've never had to actually do that," Leshin said.
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