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BREAKING: Fire at Apple Campus in Cupertino

11:53 pm, August 12th, 2008, Pete Mortensen

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SAN FRANCISCO — Multiple Bay Area news outlets report that an Apple research and development facility located at 20605 Valley Green Drive in Cupertino was set ablaze late Tuesday night, with NBC affiliate KTVU blaming a malfunctioning air conditioning unit.

Given that this was an Apple R&D facility, it’s naturally operated nearly 24 hours a day, and at least 100 Apple employees were forced to evacuate the building in the three-alarm fire. Also given that this is Apple we’re talking about, no one has any idea what these folks were working on. As of 12:30 a.m. Pacific Wednesday morning, Santa Clara County firefighters report that they expected another hour before they could put out the blaze completely.

See the Jump for a map of the fire relative to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino (basically, it was across the street).


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    [...] Det har brutt ut brann i en bygning på Apples hovedkvarter-campus i Cupertino, California. Ingen detaljer utover tidspunktet er kjent. Brannen startet i halv elleve-tiden på kvelden lokal tid, på et tidspunkt da det sannsynligvis er færre ansatte på jobb. Vi får håpe at ingen laboratorier og F&U-fasiliteter er berørt eller at noen har kommet til skade. Via MacLife Oppdatering: Det viser seg at brannen befinner seg i en av Apples F&U-bygninger, og at brannens opphav var svikt i et ventilasjonsanlegg. Det kan virke som om brannen er under kontroll. Se også CultOfMac [...]

    Macworld | Brann hos Apple, on August 13th, 2008 at 12:04 am

    [...] in Cupertino!!! R and D Department goes up in flame.. Powerbook G5 to blame? :P :P Cult of Mac: News and analysis for the Mac, iPod and iPhone communities Blog Archive BREAKING: Fire … a. __________________ Name Already Taken Podcaster | MacTalk Podcaster | Twitter: the fail [...]

    Fire in Cupertino!!! - MacTalk Forums, on August 13th, 2008 at 12:14 am

    I heard that building has to do with IT newtworks, no RD work there!!

    Apple Love, on August 13th, 2008 at 12:21 am

    [...] in Cupertino!!! R and D Department goes up in flames.. Powerbook G5 to blame? :P :P Cult of Mac: News and analysis for the Mac, iPod and iPhone communities Blog Archive BREAKING: Fire … a. __________________ Name Already Taken Podcaster | MacTalk Podcaster | Twitter: the fail [...]

    Fire in Cupertino!!! - MacTalk Forums, on August 13th, 2008 at 12:28 am

    [...] Fonte: Cult of Mac [...]

    Appleníaco » Fogo no Campus da Apple, em Cupertino, on August 13th, 2008 at 1:21 am

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    LA POMME | Le feu sur le campus Apple, on August 13th, 2008 at 2:30 am

    Women reporter name is “Lisa”…!!

    ???, on August 13th, 2008 at 5:28 am

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    Apple is on fire | macfidelity, on August 13th, 2008 at 5:57 am

    [...] Fire contained at Apple headquarters [ABC via Cult of Mac] [...]

    Apple R&D building erupts into flames | MostReviews.com, on August 13th, 2008 at 7:01 am

    Batteries, it had to be batteries. :)

    Bob, on August 13th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Actually, all the articles keep referring to it as R&D or IT. Actually the building houses the management and creative offices for AppleCare. The fire took place above the management offices and the works who create and maintain the Support part of Apple’s website: http://www.apple.com/support. But since they use Akamai for redundancy, you won’t experience any in site access.

    Robert, on August 14th, 2008 at 8:29 am