Strata Fire Scare!

Yikes.  We had a fire scare at the building this morning.  Gino and I just finished our shift, and we just got into our cars, with me driving right behind Gino as we left the basement parking.  We were barely out of the parking, when we suddenly heard the fire alarm ringing.  It’s a scary sound, being the unmistakable blare of the building’s fire alarm, but we thought maybe it was one of those pesky kids again, who have a tendency to set off the alarms by pulling the very thing that has a big sign beside it that says “Don’t Pull!”.  So Gino and I kept on driving, without thinking that anything major was happening.  I was even listening to Jude and Gelli on my short trip back home.  Then, back home, as I was sitting in front of the computer, I get a call from Gino that there was a fire at Strata and that Jude and Geli had to evacuate the building!  I texted Jude at once and thank heavens it was nothing major.  Apparently, it was a burnt fuse or something from one of the higher floors, but nothing to worry about because within an hour or so, the people were allowed to go back in, and RX was back on air soon after.

It was just scary for us because early 2008 there was a big fire in the building just a floor above ours, and that was pretty big because the streets were closed off and there were firetrucks in front of the building.  I was in the car driving when I got a text that Strata 2000 was on fire!  I rushed straight to the building and stayed with the RX people who were there, watching and waiting for news in a nearby cafe.  It was so scary because the fire was just one floor above RX!  It was a miracle that we were able to get back on air later that same night.  When we got there the next morning, the only sign we saw that there was a fire just the night before, was the wet floors in the elevator area and a slight burnt scent.

We experienced a fire in the family in 2003 and it was a traumatic experience.  I pray nothing like that ever happens again.