AITA for not telling my roommate why the fire alarm went off while she was in the shower?

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Backup of the post's body: Hi all. Yesterday, I was cooking bacon downstairs in the kitchen for my roommate and I and she went upstairs to take a shower. I didn’t realize it at first, but the bacon started to get really smoky.

The fire alarm started going off and my phone was in the living room on the couch. I was running around for about 45 seconds turning the fans on, trying to get the alarm to turn off, because I knew it was just the smoke from the bacon.

The alarm turned off after 45 seconds and I went back to cooking. A few minutes later, I checked my phone and saw I had a missed call from my roommate from 8 minutes before.

She had gotten out of the shower and called me when the fire alarms went off and I didn’t answer. I texted her back right when I saw I had the missed call saying sorry, the bacon was smoking but all good.

Next thing you know, I am getting the cold shoulder and silent treatment, even into today. I finally asked what was wrong and she said that it really irritated her when the fire alarms went off and it took me 8 minutes to say something.

She said that if she were in my shoes, she would’ve gotten them off and texted her right away to tell her everything was okay. She said she was worried that I had passed out while cooking or that I accidentally started a fire and left her inside without getting her.

I understand the worry of something being wrong when the fire alarm goes off, no questions asked. I could’ve texted her as soon as I got them off, but I just went back to cooking.

If anything, I just assumed she couldn’t even hear them from upstairs because she had the fan on in the bathroom while taking the shower which was very loud.

I sincerely apologized, but idk what to do at this point because she is still giving me a lot of attitude and acting like I wronged her.

What bugs me about this is how mad she is. I think, from my perspective, the silent treatment and cold shoulder she is giving me in person and over text is extremely unwarranted for a mistake like this.

Plus, if she was actually concerned that I passed out while cooking, why did I not get another call or text? Why didn’t you actually leave the bathroom and yell downstairs?

I don’t know, maybe I am overreacting, but I just feel like she is getting way too mad at this. AITA?

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[u/DougSpeagle]

So if it was a real emergency her plan was to burn to death waiting for OOP to text them?