ok, now i get it

[emchy]

So about a half hour before my buidling had a false fire alarm, this happened... coincidence?

 

Woman seriously burned in downtown S.F. explosion

 Julian Guthrie and Suzanne Herel, Chronicle Staff Writers Friday, August 19, 2005 Printable Version Email This Article (08-19) 11:11 PDT San Francisco (SF Chronicle) -- An explosion at Kearny and Post streets this morning blew off a manhole cover, shattered windows on nearby stores and sent at least one woman to the hospital with serious burns on her hands. Authorities did not know the cause of the explosion, but they were speculating that a transformer below the street may have blown up. Kearny Street from Howard to California streets was closed to traffic after the explosion, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. "I know that people were taken out in ambulances," said San Francisco police Officer Gary Peachey, who was on the scene. "Some people said they were smelling different things. All the windows are blown out of the Ralph Lauren store. We don't know if it came from outside or inside." Paramedics took one woman to the Burn Center at St. Francis Memorial Hospital with injuries that were described as non-life-threatening but serious. Hundreds of people, some of whom had been evacuated from local businesses, crowded the street in front of the Crocker Galleria. Among them was Tom McGibben, who works at Thomas Weisel Partners at 120 Kearny, which evacuated its employees. "We saw the lights flicker at 9:50 a.m. We felt a pretty good shake. At first, we thought it was an earthquake. "We saw smoke. The alarms in our building came on. ... At around the 20th floor you could smell something. At that point, we began to think it could be something worse than a quake. ... There were flashes to 9/11." Tim Keenan, an employee at Charles Schwab, said he was evacuated from the 17th floor of the same building. "I saw a flash of light. I looked out of the window. I saw people running and screaming," he said. "Our floor warden then asked people to begin to evacuate. To me, it sounded like a big boom of thunder." Staff writer Charlie Goodyear contributed to this report.

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It's just the day for that...

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My workplace just had its fire drill.