Adventure to Pensacola, FL: Fire Prevention Week Continued...

Last week, the Columbus AFB community participated in Fire Prevention Week. Events included, controlled burn demonstrations, a nice parade and many other educational events. MAYBE we should have paid a little more attention. It would have come in handy at 1:30 am when we had to run down 13 flights of stairs at our hotel.

FIRE DRILL!! On our trip we became a little more familiar with our friendly local Perdito Key fire fighters. I woke up at 1:30 in the morning to the faint sound of a car alarm going off in the parking lot. A few minutes later, it was still going off (and it sounded funny). I went outside and realized that there was a fire alarm going off 7-8 floors down and the fire department had arrived! We went to wake up Meg and Jason, they were on the other side of the building and could not hear a thing. They scooped up poor Jax from his crib and we ran down the 13 flights. We were smelling for smoke or burning, but did not smell anything. Thank goodness, it was not a fire. We think that someone pulled the fire alarm on a lower floor. We stood outside for about 15-20 minutes because the fire fighters could not turn off the alarm and were unable to contact anyone for the code to turn off the alarm.

Mom, I DID think of you running down the smoke-filled stairs of your hotel room in New Orleans, as the hotel burnt down... We were much more lucky!