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.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Caspian

Hmmmm,
Fire at campus, Apple store robbed! Apple must be getting the iJinx!

August 14 2008 at 7:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TheOtherSteve

I heard that someone there stumbled across a PowerBook 5300 on a shelf, and booted it up -- that's what started the fire.

;-) (for those of you who remember the infamous Lithium ion battery in those that reportedly burst into flames)

August 13 2008 at 9:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

In other "unrelated" news, Apple stocks dropped by 800% today until investors realized no one was hurt, at which point everything went back to normal.

I joke, I joke.

August 13 2008 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dvgn

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.

August 13 2008 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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PSM

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.

August 13 2008 at 7:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Seth Amott

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!"

August 13 2008 at 1:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

1 reply to Seth Amott's comment

It's across de Anza Blvd from the main campus, about 500 yards west with many other "normal" office buildings.

August 13 2008 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

heytpn

God, please don't let it be where the new ipods and macs are!

August 13 2008 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Doug

Probably a laptop battery. Aren't all technology fires caused by laptop batteries?

August 13 2008 at 12:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nathaniel Palmer

Let's just hope this doesn't delay the "major product transition."