Fire alarm madness!

WOW! Lat night was not fun! At around 11 pm the fire alarm went off in our building! Steven said get your shoes as he ran into grab baby Noah out of his crib. I quickly found my shoes and put the leash on the dog. As we opened the door our entire floor was running towards the elevators and AWAY from the emergency exit! It seemed like we were fishes swimming up stream! As we were walking the opposite way of everyone else I said out loud "WE'RE SUPPOSE TO TAKE THE STAIRS RIGHT?". Then it seemed like everyone turned around a headed for the stairs! Walking down the stairs from the forth flight with a dog and a baby was not fun! And to make it worse the alarm and strobe were SO LOUD AND SO BRIGHT all you wanted to do was fall on the ground and grab your head! It definitely didn't make it easy leaving in an orderly manner. Thank goodness it was just someone burning too many candles and nothing too serious! The interesting thing was that it took the fire department 10 min to get to us! Do you know that a person is brain dead after just 7 min of not breathing? We live just a block and a half from the department! It was shocking! And then to top it off they seemed to be moving really slowly. Well at least they came and checked to make sure everything was ok. It got me thinking about stevens decision to become a fireman. Looking at these heros come to our rescue in the middle of the night got me envisioning him doing that very same thing not too long from now! Wow, Lord please give me strength and peace!