Blaze hits Google conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Three event staff were taken to a hospital Thursday after a concession fire at Google’s annual conference for developers, I/O, at Shoreline Amphitheatre.

All three suffered minor burns, a Google official said.

Firetrucks and ambulances responded around 4 p.m. Mountain View firefighters extinguished the blaze.

“Employees at Shoreline at the kitchen area were attempting to light the deepfat fryer and there was a flash fire,” Mountain View FD public information officer Lynn Brown said.

The fire-suppression system in the kitchen put the flames out, Brown said.

Earlier reports from the fire department indicated one person hospitalized had received life-threatening burns, but Google reported all three hospitalized victims had minor injuries.

Three other victims of the fire, with minor injuries, declined to be taken to the hospital, Brown said. .

An editor with the magazine Fast Company, attending the conference, tweeted a photo of flames inside a concession outlet.