3:30 am: We got a call from the ADT security company that a fire alarm had activated in the basement of THICUT. Bob and I rushed down to find 3 huge firetrucks, a police car and various pick-up trucks parked near the entrance to Sexton Hill Rd. We drove on down and found (NO SMOKE OR FIRE) 5 firemen in full gear walking around the house trying to determine how to get in to check it out. We let them in, and we all trooped into the basement (one fireman was tall enough that he couldn't stand up straight). We located the smoke detector. It was not even activated at this point. They found nothing to indicate danger. It was about 10 degrees F outside...Remember, it takes us about 30 minutes to get from our house to Thicut. (Bob made it in considerably less time this morning...) I've decided to send the East Hampton Fire Dept a thank you note saying that we really appreciate them. We had gotten about an inch or two of new snow (unplowed) which was one reason the large trucks didn't even attempt to go to the house... My question is: what if there HAD been a fire? Where would they have gotten the water to put it out? Would those big trucks have wanted to negotiate the bridge? I called ADT and they suggested that dust, a spider, a web, any number of things could have set the smoke detector off...