Tag: FIRE

Uh oh. At about 10pm pacific time, a 3-alarm fire (about 66 firefighters responding) was reported at Apple's Valley Green Six building on Apple's Cupertino campus. The site, which is just down the road from the Infinite Loop HQ, is said to be an R&D building by Apple personnel -- Apple has not confirmed this. The fire seems to be under control with no reported injuries although it's too soon ...

We've all seen the stories where a noble passer-by runs into a burning building to save a stranded baby or animal before the firemen are able to get there and do the same. Such people usually receive 15 minutes of fame on the local news, the key to the city, and, of course, an overwhelming feeling of well-being. Given our reliance on computers today, a lot of people are also quite devastated if ...

We're pretty familiar with cell phones immolating themselves. Usually it's cheap, knock-off or poorly designed batteries that explode at the drop of a hat and cause some fireworks and fears of death. A story out of China reports of a very different sort of cell phone fire -- a much larger and rather more intentional type. A 37-year-old woman in China named Mrs. Wang was rather irritated at her ...

Are Sony PSPs going the same way as burning cell phones and batteries? According to WebPro News, a Farmington Hills, Mich., middle school boy felt something warm happening in his pants during band class -- and, just as you suspected (dirty monkeys!) -- it turned out that his Sony PSP was heating up to the point of causing second-degree burns. In an almost cliche-like instance of coincidence, ...

Danny Williams' taste in music is so wretched, his own iPod tried to kill him. Very recently, the Douglasville, Ga., native looked down to find his pants pocket engulfed in flames. The culprit: his year-old iPod Nano. Williams walked away from the incident uninjured thanks to a piece of glossy paper in his pocket, which he believes spared him from being badly burned. But, as if having your iPod ...