1AM Wakeup Call

Why am I up at 2am? 1am Stella starts barking. I hear a ringing noise in the hallway. Its the fire alarm. I get up and look outside. Nobody. I go to the door and look into the hallway. Nobody and everything looks fine. I come back to the bedroom and look outside. Lots of people so we're doing the drill. I put on my shoes and go out. There's smoke coming up from the second floor and I hear Tom, the property manager's assistant, yelling. So I have to come back and get Stella. But its not smoke. Its some kind of chemical. Its impossible to see on the second and first floors. I come out of the cloud and people are standing around. For some reason I have the sneaking suspicion that Tom has been drinking. I go back inside and find him in the basement apartment of a girl who can't find her keys (because thats the most important thing to do when the building is burning down). Tom's been running around like a madman spraying the fire extinguisher EVERYWHERE. The cloud is so thick you can't see your hand in front of your face. I tell Tom to stop spraying the fire extinguisher and go outside. Then I leave them there and go outside myself because the cloud is so suffocating its hard to breathe. When I get outside there are at least 5 fire trucks, the swiveling ladder kind, a bunch of other fire vehicles, and some police cars. Good response. But it turns out to be nothing. Now the halls are covered in fire retardant. Bad timing for Tom. He came in from the bars (more than a little inebriated) to find the alarm going off and did what he thought was right.