Barbecue burns London Google HQ
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in fire, Twitter, Google on
It wasn’t really that important enough for a news story we believe (even though the Telegraph and the Washington Post covered it) - but Google headquarters in Victoria burned! - well for about an hour.
Just rang the Google press office where the lady told me that there was an incident on the roof terrace where a fire started, it was connected to a barbecue, and the Fire Brigade were called in. Staff were evacuated, and it was all sorted out in an hour.
Like usual nowadays Twitter was the first to report it. First I heard of it was in the process of researching a security story about Twitter funnily enough - from this blog post.
That’s it really. I do have a number of questions though. Having a barbecue in the middle of the day? - lucky for some. I thought Google had things to do, like you know, work. (Although I do understand its work/ play ethos).
And, well… I thought Google had some of the brightest minds in the world. They hire the best and brightest, but yet, they couldn’t handle a barbecue? Or at least do one without burning a building.
They should have got my dad. Or any dad for that matter, they are all pretty good at making a few burgers and sausages. Nothing like a good charred piece of meat.
Rated: 60% (2 votes)
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