"Good Morning, this is the Fiscal Center, how may I help you?"
So I opened up Twitter and checked my mentions.
"Fiscal, not physical... Fiscal," she said to the person. "You know what..."
CLICK
She was aggravated to no end, mumbling to herself, "I can't stand people. Guy just got on my last nerve."
I closed my Twitter app and mmm hmmmm'd a few times so she didn't look like she was talking to herself. Then the phone rang again. I told her I'd answer it.
"Good Morning, this is the Fiscal Center, how may I help you?"
"Physical," he asked. "Who is this?"
"This is the Fiscal Center," I answered. "Who would you like to speak to?"
THERE'S A BOMB IN YOUR BUILDING.
He hung up, soon after. I stood up from my chair in slow motion with fear all over my face.
"What's wrong," my co-worker asked.
"I was just told there's a bomb in the building."
"Are you serious," she screamed.
"It was the same guy that called you," I told her.
I immediately ran into our boss office with the news. And to my surprise, no one took it seriously. We have caller ID so I pulled the number off the phone, ran to personnel and gave them the information to pass along to the authorities.
I couldn't believe it. I received a bomb threat call. But I wasn't waiting around for approval from anyone to leave the building. I grabbed my things and told everyone in my vision about the bomb threat.
Long story short, I was out of the building for 30 minutes before an evacuation. 30 minutes! A search of the building concluded in no bomb being found. And although I was relieved, one, I went home, and two, what if there was a bomb? What if the bomb was set to detonate in 10 minutes from the time of the threats? Thousands of lives would've been lost because we weren't prepared for it.
So I beg of everyone reading this message. Ask your safety representatives about evacuation procedures in your building. Inquire about test runs for evacuations. You just never know when a bomb threat, is really a threat to your life.
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