Filed under: Apple, Apple History
Fire at Cupertino campus
A three-alarm blaze drew 60 firefighters to Apple's Cupertino campus on Tuesday night. Specifically, it was in building Valley Green Six at 20705 Valley Green Drive. San Francisco's ABC 7 television news has some video.Investigators suggested that an air conditioning unit could have been the culprit. Fortunately, all employees escaped unharmed. No word on how much damage was done to the building, although some reports say the smoke damage was substantial.
We're very glad that no one was hurt, and hope the damage isn't too bad.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Roberto said 10:34AM on 8-13-2008
Fire sale, anyone?
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Ed Pummelon said 10:43AM on 8-13-2008
"No word on how much damage was." Surely there's a word missing.
As I said in another post, are there any proof-reader vacancies going at TUAW?
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Digital Suicide said 10:44AM on 8-13-2008
I was looking for a sweaty Ballmer somwhere in the video shouting: Fireworks Fireworks Fireworks !Fireworks Fireworks Fireworks !Fireworks Fireworks Fireworks ! like a mad man ;) Get it :))
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Andrew said 11:12AM on 8-13-2008
No. Please explain.
Greg T said 10:57AM on 8-13-2008
"I could burn the place down"
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M Sharp said 1:18PM on 8-13-2008
All responding fireman have been neuralized...
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joe said 11:20AM on 8-13-2008
I know the MacbookPros are hot but this is ridiculous!
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JScott said 4:09PM on 8-17-2008
--...she was like "I hate my job, I'm gonna burn this mother down!" And I said "You better not!"
--She said it was an electrical fire.
--It was. It was a total electrical fire, it was like uh, the switches had sparks comin' out, and the sockets, and uh it was like the 4th of July, man!
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StanleyCup99 said 11:57AM on 8-13-2008
Dear Lord, please don't let it be the area where they keep the new toys!! ;)
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Balls said 12:01PM on 8-13-2008
Maybe now Apple will admit to the Macbook/Macbook Pro heating problems :D
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hmcnally said 12:10PM on 8-13-2008
... and fire fighters were forced to sign an NDA before being allowed access to the campus...
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ESJ said 12:06PM on 8-13-2008
Air conditioning unit? Yeah, right. We all know Apple was testing their new iLightYouOnFire, the ultra-portable flamethrower for the rest of us.
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Brandon said 12:19PM on 8-13-2008
lol... I can't wait!
Palms831 said 12:35PM on 8-13-2008
Let's just hope this doesn't delay the "major product transition."
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Doug said 12:37PM on 8-13-2008
Probably a laptop battery. Aren't all technology fires caused by laptop batteries?
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Tyler Woodfin said 1:28PM on 8-13-2008
God, please don't let it be where the new ipods and macs are!
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Squid7085 said 1:30PM on 8-13-2008
So this isn't the main Infinite Loop campus? Still have yet to get down there, I do know that Apple has numerous campuses around Cupertino though. Question, does anybody know what was housed in this building? I can hear it now.
"Steve, this is the Fire Department, one of your buildings is on Fire."
"Oh man, which one is it?"
"I believe it is the Valley Green Campus."
"OH SHIT, Thats where we are developing the new... oh man, umm. Let it burn, don't let anybody in the building, then they might know things."
"But sir, we can..."
"Nobody enters the building, is that clear?"
"But Mr. Jobs..."
"NOBODY, Good Day!"
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G said 6:19PM on 8-13-2008
It's across de Anza Blvd from the main campus, about 500 yards west with many other "normal" office buildings.
dvgn said 2:27PM on 8-13-2008
This was a quote a week ago about when the MobileMe switched to Eddy:
"Steve and Apple aren't terribly tolerant of that kind of major screwup," says von Rospach. "Just imagine Steve Jobs wandering the hall with a flame thrower in hand, asking random people 'do you work on MobileMe?'"
So, we know what happened :( At least MobileMe will be improved.
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PSM said 7:29PM on 8-13-2008
Well if we find out no one was in the building at the time of the fire, we'll know it was the MobileMe customer service center.