It had happened one time about 3 years ago, at 630am. An ear-piercing alarm, which forces you to evacuate the building. It’s not just the home smoke detector, this is the real deal fire alarm, where the fire trucks come. We calmly got our shoes on, grabbed the jackets, keys and diaper bag, and left the building, taking the stairs. It was about 730pm, right in the middle of the UCLA/USC Pac10 tourney game. What horrible timing. Luckily it was Friday night, otherwise Brandon may have been in the bathtub. Brandon and I left first, telling Dave that we’d meet him downstairs. Brandon was very quiet as I carried him down the stairs to wait in front of the storefronts. After what seemed like a eternity, Dave came down. He had his jacket and the external harddrive. This is the 21st century way of taking all of your photos from the building upon evacuation. Lucky he didn’t risk his life for them, but it was good thinking. We were initially going to take off so Dave went underground to take out the car (we forgot the keys to the car already parked outside), but as the other neighbors were watching and waiting, I figured we should do the same to make sure everything was ok.
After an even longer eternity, the fire trucks came, sirens blaring. There was one regular truck, one bigger ladder truck and a regular-sized pick-up. They are only one block away, yet it took them at least 10 minutes to get here. We were joking that we could have walked to them, knocked on the door and told them that the alarm was going off, and beat them back before they The oral medicines that are available for treating erectile dysfunction Treating erectile dysfunction using medication and therapy offers great buy soft cialis psychological benefits. Parts of caper used in herbal supplements are bark, root bark levitra cost and leaves. All Genexpharma and Genshi steroids are good anabolic viagra canada muscle builders. Keep the medicine away from kids and also only those men who have crossed the age canada cialis 100mg of 60. had arrived. They sauntered into our building, but it was a great time to show Brandon the fire trucks up close. The fireman were in all their gear, so again, a teaching point for Brandon to never hide from them if they were looking for him. You always hear how kids get scared of firemen when they enter a burning building because of the masks, helmets, and fire-fighting paraphrenalia. I was showing Brandon what firemen look like and to not be scared, they were there to help. I even told him to tell them, “I need help!” if he was in danger. So the firemen went into the building to inspect it while the residents gathered outside. It’s always funny to me that we see people we NEVER see on a day to day basis. It was like that the last time – we saw people we didn’t even know lived in the building. Everyone is so isolated here. After they did a walk through, the alarm was turned off (yes, it had been going this entire time).
We were free to go back into the building. Luckily we hadn’t missed too much of the game. I think Brandon suffered a little bit of PTSD, because as we were watching the rest of the game, he kept mumbling, “Fire truck. Fire alarm over there. Get out. Put the shoes on.” He kept wanting one of us to hold him; “Daddy hold you, Daddy hold you.” Hopefully it doesn’t happen again. Luckily we were all home, it wasn’t raining like they had predicted today (it did start to sprinkle just as we were walking back inside), and most importantly, there really was no fire.
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