Late night blaze damages Apple Valley Green Six Building

At around 10 p.m. Pacific Time (1 am Eastern Time) last night, a fire broke out at at the Valley Green Six Building at Apple’s Cupertino Headquarters. All of the nearly 100 employees at the Apple R&D Building were forced to evacuate as the blaze started; fortunately, no injuries of any kind have been reported. According to an NBC report, the fire was caused by a faulty air conditioner. Sixty-six firefighters were called to the 3-alarm fire, and it took the almost four and a half hours just to get the fire under control. The Valley Green Six building, luckily, was the only affected building. The main area of the Apple complex is fairly far away from the building, as you can see from the picture below (the affected building is marked with the left-hand blue mark, while the headquarters are on the right). Senior Communications Dispatcher Rafael Salcedo said that most of the damage was not from the fire, but rather the large amounts of smoke.

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