UPDATED: Fire Breaks out at Apple Campus R&D Facility

Seth Weintraub
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August 13, 2008
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The good news: It looks like no one got it hurt as it was a very late. A 3-alarm fire broke out at an Apple R&D IST facility a few hours ago. As of this writing it is still burning as firefighters in Cupertino try to contain it.

More as it comes in... since everyone is safe, we send our prayers out to all of the future iPods, Macs and iPhones that hopefully will get to see the light of day.

 

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UPDATE: Firefighters have put out the blaze. The three-alarm fire burned for over three hours at Apple headquarters. The fire scorched the roof and the second level at one of the six buildings on the company's northern California campus in Cupertino. There were no injuries, but the building is understood to have suffered "a lot" of smoke damage. Link.

Comments (15)

Mac fan (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 2:51am

Wow, I guess a prototype macbook was running a little TOO hot!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 4:26am

Jobs finally pushed Ballmer too far.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 5:01am

MagSafe power brick caught fire...

Q-tip (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 5:05am

Cigarette lighter - the new killer app for iPhone

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 5:10am

Several hours later. When will the story be "broken"?

Olternaut (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 6:28am

As long as no one was hurt the next important question is:

DID THEY SAVE THE RESEARCH DATA!! Were any prototype data lost forever because of this? Will some super uber gadget that Apple was scheduled to debut be delayed or outright cancelled because of this?
I'm very worried now about macworld 09. :(

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 7:06am

FireWire 1600 test?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 12:39pm

yeah, that's it :)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 7:51am

It was the wearable displays committing suicide so they never have to actually see the light of day.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 8:17am

does the fire mean that Apple is testing the production of new magnesium cases for the new MacBook (Pro) line?? ;-)

rob

9to5Mac R33t (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 9:10am

If that was the case the building would have melted and the fire would still be burning. ;)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 8:29am

It was an IST building, not R&D. And since when are prayers good for anything, let alone hardware?

Jonny Evans | August 13, 2008 - 8:45am

 An IST building?

You mean Indian Standard Time?

What is an -Ist, is it like an -Ism?

**confused**

n00b (not verified) | August 14, 2008 - 7:57am

it's actually IS&T - Apple's IT department. I think it stands for Information Systems and Technology.

ronbailey (not verified) | August 13, 2008 - 9:07am

Really? You said a prayer for a bunch of hardware?