In the first half of my English class, we heard the alarm and thought it was just another silly fire drill. We head outside and complain about standing in the cold for forever when there's not even a real fire.
Then we hear the firetrucks coming.
A little while later, we're allowed to head inside to the nearest hallway, but we're not allowed to leave that hallway to enter the E-wing. Probably cause the E-wing smelled like burning. After some standing around, we (me, Steven, Nicki, Alex, Sheldon and Reba) headed over to the HP centre, where I took some pictures on the pedway.
After that, we headed to the South Lobby to see if we could back to our lockers. No such luck, but there were people playing Guitar Hero. Pretty soon, Ceima and Jesse and Alex find us and tell us we need to go to the gym. George is at the gym and he tells us afternoon classes (except the field trip) are cancelled. i didn't HAVE afternoon classes, so it didn't really affect me.:/
Someone opened the door to tell us that it would be another half hour to an hour before we could go back to the E-wing. Me and Steven head off to get some food in the Common Market and run into Rosalee, Daina and Dolly. They were able to sneak back downstairs to grab their stuff, but by the time we went to where they went, it was blocked off by another teacher.:/ We strolled around the sports area for a while until we were finally let back in E-wing. I grabbed my coat and keys and headed home.
I was supposed to get out of school at 10:10 this morning. I didn't end up getting home till 2:00.:( Oh well...
Apparently, the fire was caused by a small torch in the denturist section on the second floor. Not a lot of flames, but tons of smoke and water damage, leading to about $100,000 in damage. I was actually sitting next to some of the dental students on the bus, and one was saying, "I wonder if we can just have smoke-flavoured dentures?"
Anyhoo, here's some pictures I took:
