This week has been..interesting, to say the least. It started out with a 2am wakeup early Monday due to a fire in an apartment two sections down from us (our apartment complex is a series of buildings with 4 apartments in each). I dismissed the pounding on the door as drunken college students and sought to go back to sleep. But no, it was the police telling us to evacuate. Not really understanding the situation in my half asleep state, I got the kitties into their carriers and left the apartment, leaving my keys and my wallet inside. My priorities are at least pretty straight while still asleep; had our apartment actually burned down, it would've been pretty inconvenient to have my car sitting there without being able to leave, but it could've been remedied fairly quickly. The kitties, however, could not be replaced.
We were able to go back into our apartment within about a half hour, once the fire company got the flames in control enough to know it wouldn't be spreading to other buildings. No one was hurt, except for the kids' one kitty (smoke inhalation got her quick -
so sad), and we were back in bed by 4:30. We were lucky in that we had no damage whatsoever to our apartment; the buildings to the other side of the apartment that caught fire sustained smoke damage because of the connecting attic (our attic is on a different level from that building). With only one shaken up kitty (and one kitten that was just happy to play, no matter the situation), I feel very lucky that we all came out unscathed.
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