| FIRE! |
[17 Jun 2005|05:18pm] |
The night before last there was a fire in our building!
It was about 1am or maybe 1.30 am... of course we were still awake. We were actually about to start watching a DVD... when we heard the fire alarm go off. It happened one other day too so we thought it was just another false alarm, maybe some kid set it off or something. After a while it stopped and we thought we were right. It went off a couple more times and we though... ok maybe this is for real or at least we'll have to leave the building. We looked out the window and saw someone running from our building to the other building frantically. Other people in other apartments were also peering out of their windows.
Still we thought it was probably just a false alarm, until we opened the window and smelt smoke. I stuck my head out and saw heaps of smoke pouring out from the side of the building. It sort of looked like it was coming from the building site next door (which is actually part of our lot... it's the third building they are putting up).
So we grabbed our jackets and left the apartment. Of course we had to go down the stairs and there were people frantically coming down the flights of stairs... some guy shouted something at us in Spanish (probably asking us what was going on). We had to say we didn't understand and just keep moving. As we got closer to the bottom levels of the building the smoke got thicker and it was pretty scary. Thankfully there was only one more lot of stairs and then we were out of the building.
( Lots more smoke... )
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