By: Terra Ciolfe
Source: The Brock Press

Every year, as we go through university, we seem to accumulate more and more stuff. Our rooms get smaller and smaller as we are constantly adding our new books, notes and clothes into the mix. Now imagine all of it gone, with only a minute's notice.

No one ever thinks it will happen to them, but it is a reality for five fellow Brock students.

It was around 4 a.m. on Nov. 2 when the fire alarms went off and the students - Ivan Tjan, Dave Roberts, Selina Quest, A.J. Eitel and Justin Guenther - were forced to evacuate their home in the west-end of St. Catharines.

Tjan, who lived on the upper floor, just thought that it was a regular Saturday night. He had heard his roommates come home and just assumed they were being loud and that they were the ones who had set off the fire alarm.

"A couple minutes later, it went silent and I didn't know what was going on, so I opened my door and the flames started coming in my room," said Tjan. "Then I went to the window and thought, 'I got to jump' so I looked in my room for one last time and thought about what I should take."

Read the full article at The Brock Press.