Community Cancer Center Evacuated

COMMUNITY CANCER CENTER EVACUATED
Peanuts' Thought For The Day: "When one has cancer, the prospect of being caught in a burning building doesn't seem as fearful anymore."
Some dork pulled the fire alarm lever/switch/knob/whatever you call it, next to the third floor elevator this afternoon at the Community Cancer Center in Roseburg. While I and the other four chemo patients in the chemo lab were wondering if this was real or was it a drill?, a third floor medical oncologist and first floor radiation oncologist came into the lab and told us it was "real."
When we arrived outside the building, a Roseburg fire engine (presumably from the Garden Valley station) and a Roseburg fire incident command vehicle (presumably from the downtown station) were arriving on the property.
Motorists driving along Stewart Parkway were gawking at the crowd gathered outside, probably wondering why frail, elderly chemo patients (present company excluded) with IV poles were standing outside of the building.
The good news is my IV pump kept running and the IV bag never ran out of fluid during the "real" fire drill, so my chemo treatment wasn't delayed.
It may be a cool prank to pull in school, where students appreciate a diversion, but pulling a fire alarm inside a medical facility, where people's health can be put in jeopardy, is definitely NOT cool.
I think a more severe penalty should be imposed for such perpetrators, and jail/juvenile detention time should definitely be imposed on the guilty party.