So close to a vacation day.

As I was get­ting out my car in the park­ing garage, I heard fire sirens. Not unusual for down­town, so I only paid min­i­mal atten­tion. But they came down Wood­bury and turned onto Clin­ton, head­ing North. As I walked to my build­ing, I real­ized they were stop­ping in front of it. Then I noticed peo­ple com­ing out of the build­ing as the fire­fight­ers went in. Turns out there was a fire up on the top of the build­ing and an evac­u­a­tion had been called for those who were at work (it was before 7:30 AM).

Since there’s really no place to assem­ble, they move every­one across the street to Wash­ing­ton Square Park. It was nice weather today, so it wasn’t too bad though I wouldn’t want to be stand­ing there in win­ter. Even­tu­ally, they allowed us to go to B&L’s lobby, which has a cof­fee stand, so at least we could sit down and enjoy some cof­fee while we waited. It was over an hour before they let us back in.

Con­sid­er­ing it’s the Fri­day before Labor Day week­end, it was all I could do not to just head home. But I was the only one of my group in so I had to.

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