Hot time in Bloomington

Last night we had a visit from the Bloomington Fire Department. I don't know if you can tell in the picture, but there are fire trucks, firemen, and our neighbors in their jammies. Around 11:30, Chuck started smelling smoke in our apartment and woke me up. We couldn't find anything wrong and assumed it was our air conditioning, because the smoke seemed to be coming from that vent. So we called the BFD.


As the firemen were checking out the apartment, our neighbors upstairs got home and realized that it was their apartment causing the problems. One of them had left the house with a pizza in the oven, and now their apartment was a smoky mess. I don't think there was a (big) fire, but it took about an hour for the firemen to suck all of the smoke out with a big fan.

Friends and family - check your smoke detectors! Our neighbors didn't have working batteries in theirs. Ours never went off - we tested it and it seems to be working, but that was a little worrisome.

Today our Maintenance Man Ted came and replaced the filter in our A/C (our A/C sucks the air down from upstairs somehow) and brought an ozone-fan-filter-zapper thing to get the smoke smell out of our house. We are a little smelly, but fine, luckily!

Unfortunately, the purple and yellow royal gramma fish did not make it through the night. She had been sick with a fish disease called "Ick" (no kidding) and I found her this morning at the bottom of the tank. Now the clownfish has Ick but Chuck is successfully treating it. We do have a cute shrimp now as well. Chuck won't be able to get any new fish for several weeks, though. RIP Royal Gramma!