FIRE!!!!!!!!

"Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved." 

~ Susan Diane Murphee

I remember back when I was in elementary school, every year there would be an assembly that the fire department would come in and introduce us little kids to the fire fighters. I think that the main idea behind this was so if there ever was a real fire that we wouldn't be afraid of the "scary monsters" coming to take us away . . . also known as, firefighters trying to save our lives and bring us back to our scare parents! :) Roland said his school only did the fire drills. Well, in the five and half months that Roland and I have been married we have become very intimately acquainted with the fire alarms around us!

The fire alarm in our apartment is super sensitive . . . which is good and bad! I think that just about every time I am cooking something I set it off! Not that I have burnt anything mind you . . . except popcorn, but I don't know why Roland wanted me to make him something grows like popcorn, after all, I don't like it, but that is besides the point! :)

I think it was sometime in October . . . but it was still when it was somewhat warm outside . . . but our fire alarm in the whole building went off at 3:30 in the morning! At first I thought it was part of my dream, but then Roland woke me up telling me to get up because it was the fire alarm! What the fire department thinks happen is that someone who might have been drinking a little too much pulled it on accident because there was no fire! It was a interesting way to meet some of our neighbors though! :)

This week, on Monday around five in the morning while I was at work the fire alarm went off! I don't think I have ever heard such a loud fire alarm . . . seriously, I couldn't hear for about five minutes after they turned off, but I am getting ahead of myself! So, due to not knowing if it was a real fire or not, we had to wake everyone up and evacuate them out of the building . . . to say the least it was interesting! Turns out that it was a water main that had broke on the other side of the building and it had set off the sprinkler system which of course made the fire alarms go off and call the fire department! I still remember what my boss looked like when she came in in a hurry . . . still in her pajamas! :)

I hope that not every six months we have to test the fire alarms both at home, in the apartment building, and at work! :) But now at least I do know what to do if there is another emergency! :)