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Kitchen fire at Google I/O injures six

Original post made on May 19, 2017

The second day of Google's I/O conference was brought to a halt just before 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon when a fire broke out at a Shoreline Amphitheatre concession stand. Six people were injured, one of whom had life-threatening injuries.

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Posted by Observer
a resident of Old Mountain View
on May 19, 2017 at 7:33 am

I would have thought they had an App to prevent such a thing.


Posted by I/O Attendee
a resident of Old Mountain View
on May 19, 2017 at 2:43 pm

I/O Attendee is a registered user.

The information in this article is incorrect, as the Mountain View Fire Department spokesperson Lynn Brown's statement was erroneous. This information was since corrected should you choose to be more accurate in your reporting.

Six people weren't injured, and no one had life-threatening injuries. Three people were treated on-site. Three others were in the kitchen but not affected and thus refused treatment. It was a grease fire that was quickly extinguished with the fire extinguishers that were on-site. Someone pulled the fire alarm and since MVFD assumes that a fire at Shoreline involves thousands of people, they sent pretty much every available engine. That caused the news helicopters to flock to the scene, and everything got blown out of proportion.


Posted by Andrea Gemmet
Mountain View Voice Editor
on May 23, 2017 at 4:08 pm

Andrea Gemmet is a registered user.

Mountain View Fire Department spokesman Lynn Brown has since reaffirmed his initial statement that there were six injured people as a result of the fire.


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