At 1:00 PM, the fire alarm for CAHS sounded, prompting the school — teachers, students and faculty — to evacuate the premises and reassemble in the parking lot.

The alarm’s activation was unintentional. No fires were reported and no one was seen injured. Many believe smoke from a soldering iron caused the alarm to sound.

“I [thought] it was loud, and annoying, and uncalled for,” senior Brendan Gahler said. Sophomore Noah Urbina said the fiasco “felt like … a surprise birthday, but not exciting. It … just like, happened, and you’re like, ‘What in the world is going on?’”

“I was in Marine Bio and we were doing an experiment that kinda had to do with … respiration and breathing rate, and I thought that the teacher did it on purpose to get our breathing rate up so we could see in the experiment what was going on,” sophomore Daniel Endermann said.

Although the alarm generated bewilderment, halted classes and threatened to deafen those close to its speakers, this thankfully harmless mishap will remain in students’ minds as a classic high school memory.