According to reports, Santa Clara Countyfirefighters have put out a blaze that burned for more than three hours at the headquarters of Apple Inc. The first reports of smoke came at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night, and the fire was contained by 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The three-alarm fire scorched the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings on the company’s northern California campus in Cupertino, according to a report from The Associated Press. Local television reports say that the fire was at a “Research and Development” building and that there was extensive fire and water damage. About 100 Apple employees were working late at the time of the fire.
“It was extinguished early Wednesday morning and no one was injured,” AP reports. “Senior Communications Dispatcher Rafael Salcedo says the fire was ‘not very big, but there is going to be a lot of smoke damage.'”
Full article here.
CBS5 has raw video here.
We blame Milton Waddams. Luckily nobody was injured, but the damn iTeleporter is going to have to be completely rebuilt.
What is a 3-alarm blaze? I have never heard about that before. Is there such a thing as 2-alarm blaze etc?
I bet some coder was burning the midnight oil.
Either that or his Ramen noodles caught on fire.
3-alarm means three fire stations responded.
“What is a 3-alarm blaze?”
Usually, it means that three different fire engine companies (or fire stations) receive the call to go fight one fire but this protocol varies widely.
The one-l lama, he’s a priest.
The two-l llama, he’s a beast.
And I will bet a silk pajama
There isn’t any three-l lllama.
– Ogden Nash
Perhaps they were trying the heavy romured iRocket ?
Patched vulnerabilities are good things.
Exploited vulnerabilities are another thing altogether.
Apple has zero.
Microsoft, not so much.
Are they changing the company name to Apple Crisp?
Any tragedy such as this should be treated with some amount of respect and humanity. We are fortunate that no one was injured or killed when this happened. The loss of property and all the associated clean up and repairs will be costly.
This is not a time for joking around folks. If you are a troll, find another topic to be involved with.
@ Steve516
*rolling eyes*
Darn, perhaps this means we’ll never get those PowerBook G5s afterall…
I was so looking forward to an 3.2Ghz IBM powered machine!
Remember that article a while back about Eddy Cue taking over MobileMe. Something about Jobs and a flame thrower?
Y-e-a-h… medicare isn’t going to cover that
Take back my last remark. I just found out someone accidentally tripped the iPhone app “Kill Switch”.
“Hi, Sony? This is Steve Jobs. Listen, you guys still haven’t fixed those damn batteries. Look, don’t tell me you haven’t got any evidence of an issue, half our R&D;building just burned down!”
Nobody said making a dent in the universe didn’t have it’s risks…
@ Steve516
Lighten up, Francis.
MacSheikh –
“I heard there was a witness who saw two suspicious looking guys running away from the building just before the fire started. And they looked a lot like Gates and Ballmer!”
Nah, they wouldn’t torch their own R&D;department.
Well, the fireman himself the biggest danger was from smoke damage, and not fire burning everything in its path – so that means the fire was somewhat contained. That in itself is bad enough, but be grateful Cupertino is still standing.
Plus, Apple have more than enough money to renovate the affected area, but the fire will probably set a few product timetables back, perhaps?
Woaw! This R&D;section must really be into fancy new Apple concepts!!!!!!!!!!
One hundred people working late at 10pm in one building? No wonder Apple is cranking out products at breakneck speed with a fraction of the MS employee headcount.
Everybody’s got jokes today, huh?
Some of you missed your calling.
Peace.
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P.S. Glad nobody got hurt. Apple’s R&D;personnel MAY be the most valuable on staff.
Just wandering if this was included in microsoft 500 million campaign against apple. Snow leopard will be delayed.
Hum!…After ripe reflexion… Coudn’t it be Balmer who managed to sneak in there with a match?
Now the fire crew will have to sign non disclosure agreements.
Zune Tang was seen running from the building yelling “Viva La Vista, Babee!!”
It’s probably the Mobile Me servers…