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Fire Breaks Out at Apple Campus

Fire Breaks Out at Apple Campus

by , 11:15 AM EDT, August 13th, 2008

Apple's Cupertino campus was the scene of a three-alarm fire Tuesday night. Firefighters spent over three hours fighting to extinguish the blaze, and finally managed to put the fire out early Wednesday morning, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

Over 60 firefighters from the Santa Clara County, San Jose, Saratoga, and Los Altos fire departments responded to the incident after Apple employees reported smoke in the area and a possible fire on top of the building.

The fire burned the roof and second level of the Valley Green Six building at Apple's California headquarters, but there were no injuries. The building, however, suffered from smoke, fire and water damage.

Santa Clara County Fire deputy chief, Hal Rooney, did not have an estimate on the damage to the building, and Apple has not commented on the incident.

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Close Name:Guest
Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:45 pm Subject: Obviously

It's do to all the hot new products!


Sorry...


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:20 pm Subject: Is it too soon...

Burny Mac


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Close Name:Sir Harry Flashman Posts: 792 Joined: 08 Feb 2007
Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:39 pm Subject: It is already on iTunes!
Close Name:Guest
Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:41 pm Subject: "Due" not "Do"
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:43 pm Subject:

"Dew" not "Due"


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Close Name:Guest
Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:48 pm Subject: Too many distractions

Actually, the fire could have been put out in 15 minutes by two firemen, but everybody wanted to get into the building and check out all of the secret new Apple stuff. The prototype of the next generation iPhone distracted them so much the fire almost got out of control.


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Close Name:marcsten Posts: 17 Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:57 pm Subject: Sony's Fault

It started in the room where Apple stores all the Sony laptop batteries.


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Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:52 am Subject:

hahahahaa, i honestly don't know if you are joking or not...

but to be fair, sony was a target of exploding batteries just the same as Apple, it was the manufacturers fault... they made batteries for lots of computer companies.


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Close Name:Guest
Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:08 pm Subject: SJ's ego caught fire

ego overheated & combusted spontaneously.


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