Fire!!! Fire!!! Fire!!!

Today was a very eventful day. This morning at Angel Station Childcare Center where I am currently employed was a typical morning. I usually begin my work day at five in the morning so when children come they usually go back to sleep. For once every one of them fell asleep. This helped tremendously since I not only had to make breakfast but also begin the stew that was planned for lunch. I finish preparing lunch and just begin on breakfast when suddenly the smoke alarms all start going off. For everyone who doesn't know, business fire alarms sound pretty much like the ones at schools only louder. This has all the kids, except two, awake and freaking out. I'm trying to keep calm while I gather up the two babies who are in the cribs sleeping and get all the others to calm down and orderly exit the building. Seconds after I get everyone outside the phone starts ringing. In previous fire drills I was instructed to answer this call if no one was in danger. I was also told that none of the kids were to reenter the building until after the alarms were shut off. I was the only staff member so it was either answer the phone and bring the kids inside with me or have the firetrucks all come and wait outside with the kids. Since there wasn't any danger I thought it more practical to go answer the phone. I told the operator there wasn't a fire but I cant get the alarms to turn off. I was instructed to enter the password and everything would be back to normal. I had no idea what password to enter but thank goodness my supervisor pulled up. I raced out to her car to see if she knew. Just my luck she didn't and to top it all of the fire department showed up anyway. one of the firemen showed me what to do in order to reset the alarms and silence them. They asked me many questions; did I burn anything? was there any smoke? was there any steam? All of these I answered no to. He then proceeded to inspect all of the detectors and found the one that set the alarms off. Ironically it wasn't the one in the kitchen but the one in the other room farthest from it. Needless to say I didn't start all the chaos it was just an unfortunate malfunction. Although everyone knew this they still teased me. Needless to say they will be making fun of my already not so perfect cooking skills for the next century.