A Little Evening Fire to Keep Things Interesting

By Eric Richardson
Published: Friday, May 05, 2006, at 10:07AM

Fire Trucks at Premiere Towers Eric Richardson

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — I took a trip to REI last night, so I was still on the train when my cousin called me from the apartment around 10pm. Right away I heard a sound in the background.

“Is the fire alarm going off?”

“Is that what that is?”

Granted, Premiere Towers’ fire alarm does do a great impression of a submarine preparing to dive and it woke him up so he can be excused for not quite being sure what was going on.

Turns out it was a real fire. Someone left something on the burner and (I believe) started a small oil fire. LAFD was just leaving when I got back around 10:45.

This did make me realize that I need to be doing off-site backups for my web content. I think if I ever lost all this I’d just walk away; it would be too hard to start over.



Comments

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David Kennedy writes:

By the by, when you say you took the train, was that the Blue Line to the Green Line to El Segundo? I can't remember the station name.

# on May.09.2006 AT 04:42 PM
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Eric Richardson writes:

Yeah, Blue to Green to the Douglas Street station. I always forget the name too -- it's the next to last stop.

# on May.09.2006 AT 09:47 PM

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