Comments on: 3-alarm fire scorches Apple facility

Firefighters extinguish rooftop blaze Tuesday night at the company's Cupertino campus. Extent of the damage is not yet known.

[Galaxy5]

A long time ago, desktop CPUs were engineered there. Not sure what's up in VG6 anymore, tho'.

Very cool building. Big atrium. Sorry to hear part of it burned. Apple is short on office space as it is.

[Galaxy5]

A long time ago, desktop CPUs were engineered there. Not sure what's up in VG6 anymore, tho'.

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.

[benjaminstraight]

Poor Apple!

[rdwalton]

Hope no one tried calling the fire department from their 3G iPhone.

[jimdumont]

Apple trivia fact - Valley Green Six in mid-2001 is the place where an iPod first played music.

[Penguinisto]

You forgot a vital piece of the story: "...witnesses report seeing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sneaking away from the scene on foot with a half-empty gas can and a large book of matches..."

(kidding!)

Ahh, HVAC. Bane of existence, and giver of coolness that all server rooms require.

/P

[ejeon1989]

Well, at least it wasn't caused by a battery defect......

[Michichael]

Ejeon - that's Sony Lithium Ion Batteries! =P

[angeloj.rossi]

VG6 is the home of Apple IT, mostly UNIX Admin's and IT (DBA) professionals work in that building. The Data Center is across the street, so relatively no "servers" are housed in that building.

[gonzofever]

I think that's the building MOBILEME was ran out of, looks like another outage for MobileMe customers....

[Vegaman_Dan]

I'm certainly glad that nobody was injured. I wonder if this will impact operations at Apple in any manner. I am also curious if Apple will even comment on it. Buidling fires such as these really aren't public disclosures by most companies, so keeping quiet is not unusual or unexpected.

[gminetos]

Okay, so now we know THAT version of the 3G firmware fix won't make it to Beta. Keep trying guys, oh, and next time, remember to ground the electronics ...

[Craig Mossman]

I figured it was where the Discussion board servers were and they overheated because of all the iPhone 3G posts.

[Zanny_Blowzsteve]

A SCFD dispatcher said the fire was "not very big, but there is going to be a lot of smoke damage."

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.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Darn...I was hoping the whole place was a total loss.

[Heebee Jeebies]

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.