The View From Up Here

So, the view from the 6th floor of a building in the financial district rarely affords any sort of excitement. Rarely, but not never.


Ah, the excitement of a fire scare.

The building's elevator lobbies all locked down and security got on the broadcast system and said, ever so reassuringly, that there was "a fire alarm in the lower part of the building." Gee... ya think?

We actually wound up having two ladder trucks, one pump truck and one EMT truck all parked out front. And... it wound up being one of the building's ventilation compressors blew. These things all have redundancies built in , so no one in the building noticed, but when the dead one died, it let off enough smoke to trip a sensor in the basement.

And much distraction was had by all.