Introduction
The sudden sound was ear piercing, and in combination with the brightly flashing strobe lights, I found it momentarily unnerving. My tour guide and I had been heading into the Project PRIDE room, where the most profoundly disabled clients were tended, when the fire alert system suddenly went off. I immediately asked if it was a drill, and Cary Harned, my guide, assured me it was not. It was a real fire warning.