Your most memorable FAILURE at cooking (v.2)

Two summers ago I spent the summer working/living on my College campus. I got to move into my regular housing early, but the housing lottery stuck me in a rickety wooden house that's slightly off the main campus. I was the only person living there at the time.

So I was cooking a hamburger, because that's all I know how to make. I had the fan on, because that's what you do when you cook things. Nonetheless, I managed to set off the smoke alarm. In a normal house this wouldn't have been a big deal, but since this house was actually a College dorm the "smoke alarm" was actually a Fire Alarm connected to the local Fire Station. Thus, I had to leave the building and be the only person standing outside when the truck came down the street. The firemen looked slightly annoyed.

Jam it back in, in the dark.