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NUKED SPONGE SETS OFF FIRE ALARM FIRE DEPARTMENT TRAVELS 2 BLOCKS IN 10 MINUTES Fifteen minutes into the second hour of classes at Chinatown Tai Chi Center, Monday, February 19, 2007, the new fire alarm system went off. Lights flashed and twirled and sirens screamed. Instructors and students quickly gathered their coats and left the building. Ten minutes after the alarm began, the fire department finally arrived on the scene. Just as they were entering IHM, a woman came running up the sidewalk waving a nice clean sponge yelling that it was all her fault. It seems she read in the newspaper that she could sterilize a sponge by putting it into a microwave. Unfortunately, the article did not say that the sponge should be wet when nuked. She had managed to put the small fire out and told the firemen and everyone else standing around that she was sorry. At the direction of a tai chi instructor, the firemen and a security guard from Macalister College went upstairs, through the gymnasium to the west, and down the stairs in search of the off switch. They apparently found it, because 20 minutes later, two tai chi instructors returned to secure the building and the alarm was silent. All's well that ends well. |