So I'm editing stories at Maria's newspaper this afternoon and we hear someone screaming "Mayday!" on a fire department frequency.
All other activity in the newsroom stops as we gather around the scanner radio and listen to a conversation between a firefighter who is apparently trapped inside a burning building and the guys outside.
Maria had one of the reporters call the photographeer on his cell phone and then checked with the fire department dispatcher.
We're all having visions of the movie "Ladder 49" and think we're listening to a firefighter about to die.
But no, it turns out it's a training exercise.
Maria got on the phone to the fire dispatcher and implored them to let us know ahead of time when they're going to train, explaining everyone over here was freaking out.
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Sounds like things are the same everywhere!
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