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What an awful smell!

cjsmith

Friday, October 28th, 2005 01:59 pm

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!

Current Mood: calm

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Friday, October 28th, 2005 11:00 pm (UTC)

Times like this I wish we had a better vocabulary for smells. Burning plastic smell "etches my nose" while an exploded ceramic package is more "papery/ashy" -- I think this is just my synesthesia, not good descriptions! But if we could write stuff like that down, people could get some idea by reading. (Possibly as useful as learning CPR by reading. heh.)