Fire false alarm at the Metropolitan apartments. Candles and a bedwetter lead to massive inconvenience

damien haas said :

oh dear, does this mean we can expect a fleet of teepee bearing rafts appearing on Lake Ginninderra ? Thats really going to put a crimp in the water skiing regatta.

If they built lean-tos instead then they could be used as ramps?

oh dear, does this mean we can expect a fleet of teepee bearing rafts appearing on Lake Ginninderra ? Thats really going to put a crimp in the water skiing regatta.

jsm2090 said :

False alarm also at the new Lena Karmel lodge on Marcus Clarke yesterday around 1:30pm. A lot of stunned and bewildered ANU students wandering around in pyjamas!

But there’s a fire-alarm every day at unilodge.

False alarm also at the new Lena Karmel lodge on Marcus Clarke yesterday around 1:30pm. A lot of stunned and bewildered ANU students wandering around in pyjamas!

arb said :

Duffbowl said :

Maybe I’m just getting old, but where is the bedwetter in this story?

A reflection of candles flames alerted a neighboring resident to call Emergency Triple Zero (000) suspecting a fire in the apartment.

Ahhh, I was unsure if that was the connection, given it was 7:40pm.

Pretty sure the bill would be more than $2K for that event.
Two fire trucks (plus a support vehicle), a couple of police vans and two ambulances for an hour or two.

I wouldn’t want to be relying on that “Bronto” thing to save my life, it’s rediculously slow, from setup to movement. The cherry picker we had in the RFS took about 3 minutes to set up/level and if you were in the bucket and weren’t holding on when it got to the top you would be launched out of it. Think I will stay in the building next time rather than wait for that action to start/conclude. Abseiling gear to my rescue if need be.

Duffbowl said :

Maybe I’m just getting old, but where is the bedwetter in this story?

A reflection of candles flames alerted a neighboring resident to call Emergency Triple Zero (000) suspecting a fire in the apartment.

Maybe I’m just getting old, but where is the bedwetter in this story?

So, who gets charged the $2,000 callout fee that the fireys always threaten to issue in these situations? Does the person who had the candles receive the fine, or does the twitchy neighbour who called emergency services out receive it?

Heh.. A candle..
Theres quite a few good flame screensavers that would do a better job!