[day 3: fire brigade]

well...i had [quite] the experience today. let me tell you a little story.
so, family and i get back after being out together, and i'm the first to walk in the house.
"beeeep! beeep! beeep!!" every. alarm. is going off.
the first thing we think to do [naturally] is change the batteries.
that's the thing you usually do right?

so, we go through the house, and change every battery.
and the beeping continues, along with the blue flashing light that
tells us that we're being contaminated by carbon monoxide.
[no...not dioxide. monoxide]

not sure of what to do, we call my dad at work.
he suggests to do the things we've already done,
and that if it doesn't stop, we need to call the fire department!
to be safe, we all go out to the garage, just posting, trying to figure out
the best thing to do.
we call our furnace guy-trying to avoid the fire department-on their ad, they say 24 hours right? LIARS!
[mind you, as we're making these calls, we can now here the alarms from outside]
after sitting there a bit longer, we decide to call the fire department, just to be safe.
first call was to the alpine fire department: we get nancy's voicemail
second call was to the highland fire department: we get another voicemail
third call was to the non-emergency line of the highland police department: we [finally] get through.

my mom-again, trying to avoid a scene-tells the lady on the
other line that our carbon monoxide detectors are going a
little crazy, and she's not sure what to do. she asks if the
firemen can come, but that they keep their lights and everything [off]
because no one is hurt!

not even five minutes later, we hear all kinds of sirens tearing up the road,
to our house. we had the fire brigade at our house.
awesome huh?!

apparently, our carbon monoxide detectors were going off for
absolutely. nothing. regardless, the fire brigade was very nice!

no messing with [real] fires, or emergencies today.
stay safe my friends!!