Fire alarms and firemen knocking on the door is not something pleasant to wake up to. Scrambling to put on clothes and shoes, completely forgetting to grab the important papers and our computers and other valuables.
BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP....
Ugh. It was freezing outside. There were 3 fire trucks and an ambulance. Tons of firemen, hoses running all over everywhere, people and dogs standing around.
BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... BEEP.... They finally got the alarm turned off and we could go back inside. So much for a good night's sleep that night!
About a month and a half ago, we had an idiotic neighbor light his porch on fire. At 1:00 am. We only have a volunteer fire station, but the one fire truck they had staffed came, along with two from the nearby army base. An ambulance also showed up. The fire department set off the building alarm then knocked on our door, and all the other doors, to get us out. So everyone in the entire building evacuated: people, children, dogs, cats. At first, most everyone was waiting outside. Slowly, people started going to their cars because it was so cold out. There were no flames from the building, all the firemen were moseying about. Apparently they were trying to figure out how to turn the alarm back off.
The firemen finally turned off the alarm and let us all go back inside.
After a few weeks, I went into the complex office for something and asked what had caused the fire. The neighbor on the 3rd floor had decided to smoke on his deck. He didn't manage to get the cigaret out and his wooden deck had caught fire. Unable to get it under control with the fire extinguisher, he had called 911.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he called, but it seems like that was a dumb thing to do in the first place. If you have a wooden deck, why would you not make sure that anything with fire is completely put out before you go to bed? I don't understand some people.
Anywho... later on a restoration company came and looked at our deck and the two above us. Over the last few days, the company has been repairing the decks. Two ladies came to clean our deck this afternoon. Now it's sparkly clean and doesn't have cob webs anymore. :) Unfortunately they had to deal with those too.
Glad nothing else happened!
No comments:
Post a Comment