8/30/08

Fire in 1014

Last night was date night, but it was a little more eventful than the norm....Just a few minutes after we arrived back at our apartment, the building's fire alarm began to sound, and our tiny home filled with the smell of smoke. When you live with a ga-million people above you, under you, and across the way from you, these things become common practice, but this was the first time we could actually feel the effects, and were worried. Our door handle wasn't hot, so I opened it, and saw this:

They were running from door to door telling us the fire was on our floor and to stay inside our apartments. We did, but the smell was awful and making us sick.
We leaned out of our windows for air, and this was the view:
It finally got so bad that I opened our door again and a firefighter saw me and told me it was okay to use the back stairs and exit.

It was close to midnight, and all we had grabbed were our phones and 75cents (Scott's doing) so we walked around the grocery store and the island for an hour, in hopes that our apartment would air out and we could return home.

Long story short, our apartment is fine. The neighbor in 1014 burnt their dinner and had a kitchen fire. Thanks guy.

1 comment:

MomD said...

SOOO thankful that's all it was! On a 10th floor, it could have been so much worse. Things may retain the smoke smell for a while. Yuk.