Had my first exam today, in Advanced Parallel Computing with Scientific Applications. I think it went pretty good, though being interrogated by two professors for 45 minutes is quite exhausting. Just six exams to go, the next one takes place on Monday.
We had a little bit of action at the student house at Meierwiesenstrasse today. I was taking a nap when I woke up to the sound of fire klaxons. Seems like someone or something has triggered the fire alarm, so there was nothing else to do than to make your way to the nearest exit. On the way out I instinctively grabbed my always-ready camera bag – I knew the fire brigade was on its way. Photo time! 
As usual, click on any photo to magnify or to browse the album.
Within a few minutes two big trucks, including a rescue ladder, arrived to the scene with full speed.
Nobody was surprised that the cause was inside the kitchen; someone had forgot a piece of bread in the oven. There was a strong burnt smell inside the house, and some smoke was still visible when the firemen arrived.
Everyone was safe, so the firemen switched the alarm off and returned to their vehicles.
A little action in the otherwise quite uneventful exam week, and once again I got to practice my photojournalism skills. Always, always keep your camera ready!
Everything had run like clockwork; the fire alarm, fire brigade withing ten minutes, and the housekeeper and a security guard arrived shortly thereafter. The Swiss have done it again. And the unlucky person who forgot bread in the oven might have to pay 2000 CHF for the false alarm. Wow.
“En bulle i ugnen”, as you might say in Swedish…or did I just misunderstand that idiom?
Update: A reader pointed out that the expression “en bulle i ugnen” is just as valid in English as “a bun in the oven”. I hadn’t even bothered to check that. The headline thus reads “A bun in the oven can have serious consequences” in English.
One Comment
How exciting!
I like the picture where the fireman is looking into the oven, it brings up many questions.
Was the bread in the oven or in what looks lika a toaster under it? Was the bread that can be seen beside the toasterlike object the actual bread that caused the turmoil, or just an innocent bystander? Anyhow the bread in the picture looks much less burnt than the “toaster”, but the toaster looks in worse shape than the oven that was said to be the cause. Mysteries!
My guess is that the bread in the picture might have been next in line, and was since just lightly roasted by the neglegence of the carb-craving student.
I do, by the way, believe that the exact same idiom exists as “a bun in the oven”, which might be more understandable for some of your readers
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