When the small fire broke out in one part of our office yesterday, I was worried… we were having a meeting at the 5th floor… when the chairman went out for a while, I heard the fire alarm… I asked the rest if there is any fire drill?… no one seem to be taking so much attention… so I went and peek outside… the alarm is louder but the people outside just staring each other… then someone said please get down, there is fire… then the security guard came and confirmed it.

But I still, don’t think there was fire… I still think this is just a fire drill… coz it was mentioned in one of the meeting recently that we have not conducted any fire drill for sometimes. I went inside the meeting room, inform the rest, grab my files and tablet… follows the flow of human through the stairs.

When I reached my floor, I saw my colleague, I asked where is the fire, she said 1st floor… oh boy, it’s below us… but the bell is louder on our floor, so I asked if the server room OK… she said OK… I went to my room and put the file on my table… peek into the server room, all seem normal. Went out with my tablet and locked my door… was wondering, should I bring my backpack which contain my notebook… I leave it behind… but after the whole episode, I realise I should’ve take my backpack and notebook together… must remember this next time. Probably the reason I did not take it was that I feel the whole things was under control… no big smoke… which luckily true.

After locking my room I went to the rest room to pee… only few people can be seen on my floor… and I still don’t see any smoke… so I took my sweet time to pee… hahahaha… after that I went to the stairs… and saw the chairman… walked down… reach 1st floor and ask one guy where is the fire… he said inside… we went inside and have a look… there was few people inside trying to break the wall… saw a lot of white smoke… actually it was not smoke, it was the fire extinguisher powder… the fire was already under control.

Actually when I found out the fire is below our floor, I stated getting worried coz usually fire goes up… if the fire is at the higher floor, it will be safer… will have some extra time to save important stuffs. And from this incident, I feel unsafe now… coz there is water pipe on our ceiling for our workshop pantry… the pipe is hdpe type I guess… we have lots of electrical stuffs… I just hope it never leak… I wish our water piping is this type of flexible metal hose… coz this baby can take more than 800 degree Celsius heat and more than 10,000 PSI pressure… I just hope all will be safe, no future incident, cross my fingers… and so far no official report of the cause of the fire.