Residence on fire

I have experienced three fires in my life so far. One was my own home when I was a child, I came home from school my mum was in the house next door and I opened the front door and hallway was on fire, it started with a parfin heater left on, it was mainly smoke damage and thankfully no-one was hurt. The second was as an adult visiting a friend with my two children I had at the time and she had five and two of their friends playing, there was an electrical fault on a cooker and before we knew it whole kitchen was in flames, we were three and four floors high, but managed to get 8 of the nine children out before the smoke and flames wouldn't allow us, at this stage still awaiting fire service, the ninth child luckily was gymnastic and jumped from fourth floor to a balcony below, injuring ankle but lept to next house balcony along and escaped that way. We were taken by ambulance to hospital, I was on a double oxygen mask with one of the children and treated for smoke inhalation but we were all ok. Just very shocked obviously. The last and hopefully very last I will experience was in fact a car fire. The engine set on fire at a fuel pump on petrol station forecourt. I managed to jump back it car and get off of forecourt safely away from pumps before it was totally engulfed. Again no injuries but road was shut for two hours whilst they cleared and made petrol station safe again. Truamatice experiences for anyone to have to go through and I am sorry to hear of your one. Ellie :D

Thank God this has happened to me only once. It was when I used to live in Cavite, Philippines and it New Year's Eve was coming to a close. We just got our new pc so me and my brother pretty much locked ourselves up in our room playing computer games and such. Until one day, about some time in mid day I have just woken up, my brother was on the computer and not knowingly in our terrace outside a fire was starting to build. My parents are both at work, our helper was busy with something or i dont know and my sister and my cousin were off somewhere. Then I went out the room to go to the bathroom and do the morning rituals and to my surprise as I looked outside there was a big fire!! I freaked out and ran back to the bathroom to get a pail of water but as I went back to our terrace our very nice neighbor has come and extinguished the fire. It burned the ceiling black, and one of our sofa to ashes. We found out that the cause of the fire was fireworks that my sister and cousin were playing before they went to the playground that day. I think, they tried lighting one and thought it didn't work so they just left it in our sofa.