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I get to deal with all kinds of drunks during this time of year and it amazes me how many people I see that get out of the drivers seat sloppy drunk. And I'm talking sloppy enough for me to refuse entry.
I did have an exciting night at The Beast tonight. Tonight was a slow night and after this weekend I was needing it. I'm catching up on stuff that get's neglected on Fri and Sat nights, and next thing I know I get a "serious" call to one of the rooms.
To give you back ground we have "casual" and "serious" alerts. If one of my employees needs something they hit a little red button, it sounds off on a board downstairs and I go see what they need.
If it comes across as a serious I'm tearing up to that location, knocking over customers, props, and anything else in my way. Meanwhile my asst. is running for the officer at the front door and bringing him to the location.
So I get the call and I'm off. I get to bottom of this 3 story square spiral stair case. And on of our fog machines had decided that it was done working, and as a protest for being over worked, it was going to try and burn the building down with it. There are 2 ft flames and acidic smoke pouring off this thing. And since it was still plugged in and somehow the pump was still pumping it's also billowing fog like I've never seen fog come out of this machine.
I had the thing out and here comes the fire marshall, officer, owner, GM, asst, head of security, my maintiance guy, looking like keystone cops coming around the corner. And there I am almost wretching from the combination of burning plastic smoke, electrical smoke, overheated fog, and fire extinguisher powder. My black pants white with the powder, hanging out a window trying to get some fresh air. Got me a lung full and started gathering fans, finding power cords, etc. It took about 20 mins from the time that I got the call, to when we were back to customers walking through.
Oh and BTW this happened in a 100+ yr old building. I think someone was looking out for that building. I was less than 50ft away from the fire when I get the call, the fire extingusher was less than 5ft away, and the only damage was some burn marks on the floor where the plastic melted into a pile.
Parakeet