Apple Insider is reporting that a bomb threat has been made against Apple’s Elk Grove, California distribution center, with three builds evacuated as the threat is assessed.
People with knowledge of Monday’s ongoing incident informed AppleInsider that the eastern three buildings A, B and C have been evacuated at the Apple Sacramento Campus. The site is used for receiving, warehousing and logistics, and is comprised of three warehouses totaling 450,000 square feet.
The buildings were evacuated Monday around 12:30 p.m. Eastern, 9:30 a.m. Pacific. As of Monday afternoon around 2:30 Eastern, 11:30 local time, emergency personnel were still on scene.
The evacuated buildings house refurbished products, returns, finance and human resource operations for Apple.
We’ll have more details as we get it. For now, it looks like all Apple personnel is safe, but if shipping slips on your refurbished iPad today, you know why.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
12 responses to “Apple Distribution Center Evacuated After Bomb Threat”
Wow! Scary stuff! Probably a windows user.
Wow! Scary stuff! Probably a windows user.
Probably a Xoom user though
All because someone called in and said “This iPAD 2 is Da Bomb!”
Hope it is all just a ruse, and everyone is safe.
This stock photo is approx 15 years old…there’s a D building.
Apple products aren’t going to suck out your soul. Especially the refurbs. Glad everyone is safe.