Fire alarm was for real this time.

[dennilfloss]

Fire in my building. Apartment one floor up and one unit down from mine. Perpetually drunk Inuit lady lives there but she's no where to be found at the moment. Lotsa black smoke. Maybe mattress & paint burned. They just let us from the lower floors back in after using the compressors and big fans but still much smoke smell. Took some pics and videos. Will upload later. Right now my throat is irritated by the smell so I've opened my windows to further air the apartment. No damage to my place though. Should be in the newspaper tomorrow.

We get false alarms at least once a month from people cooking.

 

[Bignate603]

Did it get bad enough to stink up your stuff? Even if there's no physical damage the smell of smoke can be hard to get out of things.

 

[ecom]

We had one girl set off the fire alarms because she decided to hang a wet garment from the sprinkler head. It flooded half the wing.

 

[dennilfloss]

There is a slight acrid smell in the apartment but I got worse a few years ago when a fire occurred on my floor that time. Luckily smoke rises and I was one floor below the fire. The firemen had the hoses out but I saw no water coming out of that apartment. They must have been able to extinguish it just with extinguishers. there was like 8 trucks.

Not very charitable of me but that lady should not live here. She needs to be institutionalized. Heard that she was wandering the floors last night with a knife in hand.

 

[dennilfloss]

Here are pics (reduced).

 

[dennilfloss]

News.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/09/25/15478191.html

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Mattress+catches+fire+causing+damage+apartment/3580489/story.html

 

[ahenkel]

I'm surprised igloo's catch fire

 

[dennilfloss]

Uploaded 5 videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/dennilfloss

 

[Imp]

Oh, I thought you were in Toronto and one down from the 7 alarm fire on Wellesly (sp?).