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.
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Wow, I guess a prototype
Wow, I guess a prototype macbook was running a little TOO hot!
Jobs finally pushed Ballmer
Jobs finally pushed Ballmer too far.
MagSafe power brick caught
MagSafe power brick caught fire...
Cigarette lighter - the new killer app for iPhone
Cigarette lighter - the new killer app for iPhone
Several hours later. When
Several hours later. When will the story be "broken"?
Please tell me they saved the research!
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. :(
oh oh
FireWire 1600 test?
yeah, that's it :)
yeah, that's it :)
It was the wearable displays
It was the wearable displays committing suicide so they never have to actually see the light of day.
New Macbooks with magnesium case
does the fire mean that Apple is testing the production of new magnesium cases for the new MacBook (Pro) line?? ;-)
rob
If that was the case the
If that was the case the building would have melted and the fire would still be burning. ;)
It was an IST building, not
It was an IST building, not R&D. And since when are prayers good for anything, let alone hardware?
An IST building? You mean
An IST building?
You mean Indian Standard Time?
What is an -Ist, is it like an -Ism?
**confused**
it's actually IS&T - Apple's
it's actually IS&T - Apple's IT department. I think it stands for Information Systems and Technology.
Fire
Really? You said a prayer for a bunch of hardware?