Fire alarm accident

This story happened two years ago when I was at home with my 3 other roommates in Montreal. It was at night and I was watching a movie, one was studying for their exams and the other one was cooking a chicken. At least that was what he was supposed to do. He put the chicken in the oven and went to his room listening to some music. So, as you might have guessed, he forgot about the chicken, and the house fire alarm rang. As none of us, all coming from Brazil, didn’t have to deal with any fire alarm set up in our houses (yes, it’s true. I don’t know why though), we didn’t know what to do. The buzz was horrible. The guy who did the mess-up was hopeless when he saw a lever by the front door and had the amazing idea to pull down it. Now, the fire alarm of building was blaring, much louder than the last one! This story wound up with me calling the landlord and trying to explain him what happened. After a few sentences of explanation in english, he realized what happened, freaked out, switched to french right away and start yelling some swear-words....