Today I got up as usual to go to work and while I was preparing the breakfast sandwiches the fire alarm began to blare.

Not fun.

I turned off the coffee machine and the griddle as I didn’t want to cause more work for the firefighters. Grabbed the first sweater I found, waited for the wife to get the keys and her cellphone and headed outside.

Even after taking so long to get out of the apartment we were the first ones out if the building… nice achievement I guess. Maybe many were still asleep and were caught by surprise.

Better still the firefighters where already there, and about 40 minutes later they told us we could go back in.

The source of the fire was an old car on the underground parking lot, about 5 stalls from mine. No other was harmed as far as I could tell.

I did learn that I need to keep a couple of things closer to the entrance.

• My keys and wallet.
• Weather-apt jacket/sweater.
• A zip-lock bag with other id documents.

Funny things that did happen:

• A couple had enough time to get their guitars and other miscellaneous bags and boxes.
• Finally had some time to talk with our next door neighbors and catch their names again :P
• Poked some fun at the condominium corporation’s stupid fines made up to grab money from us the owners. (Is that even legal?)