Holy Smoke, Batman

Well, after living in our neighborhood for all these months and hearing the sirens and in some cases the smoke of the occasional fires, we finally had some excitement of our own today.

At around 1pm this afternoon we were gettings things in order for our road trip when the building fire alarm went off. Our first thought was that some joker had pulled the fire alarm, but I went out to investigate anyway. Saw one person in the hall who also wasn't sure what was going on so I went down the the stairs and upon entering the stairwell I could smell smoke, it got stronger when I entered the lower floor, so I went back upstairs to tell Roanna and ran into someone banging on all the doors yelling that there was a fire. After a few frantic minutes of gathering up passports and other important papers and items, we got out of the building. Once outside there was a small gathering of people and we could hear the fire department on their way. All turned out well, as it was just a minor fire in one of the corner apartments. Don't have all the details, but it seems that an elderly man forgot about some food his wife left for him on the stove, not the first time either apparently.

Kudos to the Vancouver FD by the way, they got here in less than ten minutes, maybe as little as five.

Below are some pics, nothing very exciting. Sorry. Ro insisted on the photos of the "cute" firefighters.