Last night at around 2:45 A.M., I was abruptly woken up to the flash of strobe lights and the sounding of a shrill alarm. I jolted awake and leaped out of bed. The fire alarm. I was disoriented, confused, and didn’t know what to do. I grabbed my key and followed the girls in my hall down the fire escape. We met our R.A.’s outside who said this was NOT a drill. We were scared and had to move locations to the front of McElvaney where we were met with several fire trucks and the police. What was happening? Was my dorm burning down? I was scared as I stood there in the darkness with my friends.
After talking to the fire chief, I was reassured that there was no fire. Instead, somebody had broken the glass on the fire extinguisher and had sprayed it everyone on one of the floors. Why was I woken up in the middle of the night because someone thought it would be funny to pull an immature prank? I was furious. I was exhausted from a long day at the TCU football game and all I wanted to do is sleep. I did not think this was funny at all. The person who did this obviously did not think about the consequences of their actions and how they would effect a dorm full of kids, not to mention the various firemen and police officers that had to come. What was going through their head when they committed this act?
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I hadnt heard about what happened until I read your post. I think its crazy that someone could actually be that stupid to do something like that. Its bad enough being loud at night and waking your neighbors up, but to cause the fire alarm to go off and wake up the entire campus, thats just crazy.
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