Posted: 11/18/2005 7:06:22 PM EDT
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The other night our alarm went off in the middle of the night. HOLY S$#%. The kids woke up screaming and the indicator on the alarm panel in our bedroom showed main level window open. The alarm company called within seconds and I grabbed my pistol and started down the stairs with my heart racing and fighting tunnel vision the whole time. To make a long story short, I cleared all three floors while my wife stayed on the phone with the alarm company. After what seemed like an eternity all was fine and it turned out to be a malfunction with our alarm system. I have been in some hairy situations in the military and have trained continuously for different scenarios, but when your by yourself trying to clear a 3 story house after being woken from a deep sleep with your family upstair is by far the worst feeling I have ever had in my life. I am just glad it was a false alarm. EDIT: In hindsight, I probabaly should have just stayed in our room and let the police come and clear my house. But hindsight is 20/20 |
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I had a hot tub room added to our house and it had two sets of louvered glass doors in it. We had just gone to bed when I heard glass breaking (a lot of glass) from that direction. I got my benelli and headed that direction, cleared the area and then saw what it was. A glass shelf full of candles had fell 
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Yes. Clearing a house (a multi-story one especially) is NOT a one-person job. Ideally, you and your wife could have gone to the kids room (i.e. concentrated everyone in one defensible place) and stayed there IF help was going to arrive in a reasonable amount of time. Glad everything worked out fine ! 
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