Apple's headquarters saved from fire
Dip it in caramel
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 18:05
FIREFIGHTERS in Cupertino, California put out a fire at Apple's headquarters early this morning.
The apparently stubborn three-alarm blaze burned for more than three hours before finally being extinguished.
It burned the second level and roof in one of the company's six main office buildings at its northern California headquarters campus, according to a report by the Santa Clara County Fire Department.
A SCFD dispatcher said the fire was "not very big, but there is going to be a lot of smoke damage." The fire's cause was not reported and the company hasn't made any comment.
Reports that Nick Farrell was seen in the vicinity brandishing a pastel-coloured cigarette lighter have been condemned as wildly inaccurate. µ
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must have been a macbook pro with a faulty battery AND flawed Nvidia gpu. Its hard to beleave that Dell and HP have been hit with Nvidia mobile GPU failures but not Apple.Of course Apple is not exactly forthcoming with information regarding design flaws.

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.
Wasn't there a reported problem with the laptop power leads burning ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rheauchyr/113019035/
..someone left an Apple laptop plugged in overnight?
Any sightings yet?
The blokes mistook it for a smoke-easy. Sorry guv, err, your Jobsness.
Macs are fire hazards...


im surprised that half the neighbourhood wasnt burnt down to the ground with the ammount of shiny plastic there must have been in there :O)