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.'”
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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.
Have they checked where Steve Ballmer is lurking?
I guess all the anti smoking granolas will be pissed. Apple’s carbon footprint increased dramatically last night & I wonder if GreenPeace will protest.
@Smoke Free Campus
Apparently all Steve would need to do is wipe out the kangaroo population of Australia, either through eating, shooting, clubbing or bombing them.
Who knew those environmentalists were such a bloodthirsty lot?
Personally, I’m on Skippy’s side.
Thank you all for making me belly laugh. Haven’t laughed this hard sine Fake Steve stopped posting.
Give a moron a camera and he filmes the lights on the trucks…veeeeery interesting :/
Boy, Microsoft will try anything to slow down Apple!
No! Not the iTeleporter! That’s the beta version of the iTele.
new product transition : “Yes, it’s really that hot !”
Why not pour some koolaid over it to shocke it??
“It’s probably the Mobile Me servers…”
Or the iPhone Activation MacBook’s battery caught fire.
They just don’t have enough space for all that cash.
> A pile of splintered office chairs was discovered as the origin of the blaze.
> Still testing PowerBook G5’s it seems
The most clever comments…
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I wonder if the fire was a good enough excuse for Apple to give all those OT workers a quick lunch or break period?
@MacSheikh
If the suspects were “running” than it couldn’t have been Ballmer.
@madgunde
Quote of the day!!
Too bad that douche (Dan Lyons) was never funny…
To those blaming Microsoft, don’t. Without Apple, Microsoft would have no R&D;.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft offered money to rebuild such a vital aspect of their, uh, Apple’s business. If Apple were to go down, MS would have no idea what to do anymore!
That pyro Steve Ballmer…always playing with matches…
Dell’s and Enderle’s real strategy to compete against Apple in motion?
It’s those damn batteries again.
So, it looks like Zune Tang was of the party! Balmer was only there to watch if Zune Tang’s zealotry would just be enough (avoiding to spend $ having to pay someone to do it – M$ has to keep monney for Vista’s promotion)!
Bill Gates got lost after naively responding to a World War II squadron scramble that one of the many Bindows viruses told him about (63 years late). His ancient Tiger Moth, which he mistakenly took due to his “knowledge” of period warbirds brought about by an inaccurate Microsoft Flight Simulator, was emailed another virus to its onboard and “super-reliable” Dell Inspiron neo-computer by Zune Tang. Unfortunately, the build-up of quasi-data resulted in the bomb doors on his plane rupturing and chucking a pile of incendiary bombs onto the Apple R&D;building. The 3-alarm system, which signifies an fire caused by three Microsoft programs coinciding in their eternal death throes, albeit death throes that are the very nemesis of Apple, and not their fault in any way, was thus triggered.
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!
Remember the scene from Young Frankenstein, where Boyle got his thumb lit?
You get the idea.
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I think the fire was set by BIG FOOT!!