3-alarm fire scorches Apple facility
A building at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus sustained unspecified damage overnight in a three-alarm fire.
Firefighters respond Tuesday night to a three-alarm blaze at Apple's Cupertino campus.
(Credit: KPIX)The blaze at the Valley Green 6 building, which appeared to have started under a ventilation and air-conditioning unit on the roof, was reported by workers at around 10 p.m. PDT Tuesday.
The location of the fire at the rooftop HVAC unit, where work was being done, offered a clue as the possible cause of the fire. "It lets us know it might have been an electrical issue, might have been a gas issue," Hal Rooney, deputy chief in the Santa Clara County Fire Department, told reporters on the scene Tuesday night.
No injuries were reported. About 66 firefighters were on hand to deal with the blaze, which was extinguished after about three hours.
Apple representatives were not immediately available for comment Wednesday morning.
San Francisco CBS affiliate KPIX has video from the scene Tuesday night, including Deputy Chief Rooney speaking and raw footage of fire crews at work.
Deputy Chief Hal Rooney of the Santa Clara County
Fire Department describes the fire and its aftermath
at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus.
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Very cool building. Big atrium. Sorry to hear part of it burned. Apple is short on office space as it is.
Very cool building. Big atrium. Sorry to hear part of it burned. Apple is short on office space as it is.
The fireman quoted in the interview is mistaken, though; there are many more than six Apple buildings in Cupertino. He may have been referring to Apple Campus 1-6. There aren't actually six Valley Green buildings anymore, though there once were.
(kidding!)
Ahh, HVAC. Bane of existence, and giver of coolness that all server rooms require.
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Ahh.. it occurred in the area where they store the smoke & mirrors.
So, it could be:
(A) Steve's Office
(B) Mobile Me's "There's Nothing Wrong with our servers" department
(C) Wherever they write those magical yarns that Steve spins in MacWorld keynote speeches
(D) where ever they do "bake off" tests.
- by Heebee Jeebies August 13, 2008 2:54 PM PDT
- I wonder if maybe one of those "faulty" iPhone 3G's couldn't have caught fire. At the very least the fire sprinklers seem to work as well as the iPhone 3G connects to the network.
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