Fire Scare

The other night, we were upstairs rearranging Jack's room since we had put his bed up and taken down his crib. All of a sudden we hear the fire alarm go off. So we run down stairs to see why and our whole bottom floor was a little smokey and totally smelled like fire. We were running around trying to see what was burning and we couldn't find anything but we realized the smell was coming up through the vents. Our maintenance guy had been working on our furnace that day so we start getting really nervous. I run down to the basement to see if I could find where the fire was but found nothing. Still nervous, I call 911 and they send the fire department over just to check it out and be safe. We live right down the street from the fire department so they showed up in about five minutes with lights, sirens, and everything! And at first they went the wrong way down our street. eventually they found us and I'm sure all the neighbors were wondering what the heck was going on. We were babysitting Lily that night and both of them were glued to the window saying "Wow! Cool!"

By the time they found our house and came in to check everything the smell had gone down a ton and they weren't able to find anything. They think that some debris fell onto the flames in the furnace and burnt up, sending the smoke and smell up through the vents. It was enough to give us a good scare though! I felt bad that they came out to our house for nothing, but I guess it's better than if they came to our house and had to hose down all my belongings!!!