What an awful smell!

[cjsmith]

Fire in our building today. AWFUL electrical smell. Couldn't find the source. Server room? A/C units?? Evacuated everyone, firemen showed up, we all counted noses while the guys went in...

Turned out it was a fluorescent light ballast self-destructing. My GOODNESS that can stink up a big building awfully darn fast.

We got four fire trucks and a police car for a broken light!

Comments

[sharya.livejournal.com]

Burnt plastics and electronics are bad, but I can assure you that burnt hair and skin are worse.

As it is, Febreeze is your friend for the next little while!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't know about burnt skin (at least not in any quantity), but I hate burnt plastics worse than burnt hair. Ugh. Something about the burnt plastic smell scrapes the inside of my nose. Burnt hair (I've had my share o'that) just smells icky-bad to me, not nose-hurty.

I wish there were a Febreeze bottle the size of this office building! :-) :-)