I've got to give credit to the employees of the Globe-News. This morning the fire alarm went off. Usually, we're alerted in advance that we're going to have a fire drill some time on a specific day. When the alarm went off this morning, no one hesitated or looked to Executive Editor Dawn Dressler for some sign this was a mistake. Most of us grabbed our coats and filed out according to drill procedure. Some didn't take their coats, figuring we'd be called back while leaving the building.
Well, it didn't work out that way. Some kind of industrial dust had set off the alarms so we were oytside, mostly freezing, until those who do that kind of thing found the source of the problem and let us come back into the building. Of course, there was some of your typical jawing about the alarm going off when it's so cold, but fire or other emergencies don't check the weather forecast before igniting. The employees did well, though not necesarily silently.