I cannot forget a traumatic experience I had when our daughter was just a baby, and that was 26 years ago.
We then lived in the old house of my hubby’s parents, where my hubby and his siblings all grew up.
Since they had a new house constructed at a subdivision, they let us stay in their old house.
It was actually in the compound where some of the relatives of my father-in-law live. It is in the middle of the city, where the mall, church and even the school where our daughter went for her primary grades, are just near and walking distance.
However, some of the houses that surround us are made of concrete yet our roofs are of galvanized irons that can be burned.
One block away from where our compound is, are houses made of light materials and the houses have no firewalls like our compound is and the houses are so near to one another.
So one night, we were awakened by sirens blowing. A neighbor knocked on our door and told us that there is a fire in those light material houses a block away from us.
Hubby went up the roof and saw the very high blazing fire and the wind blowing. We got afraid that because it was windy some fire remnants can reach our place.
At once hubby, me and the helper, put all our clothes in bags and hubby and our helper took them out and placed them in an open basketball court surrounded by buildings.
Then, I also scooped my daughter from her crib. Oh my, my heart was pounding because of nervousness, and my hands shook. Our baby fell from my hands, good thing it was just an inch from the cushioned crib.
We were so distraught and afraid that night while at the basketball court.
I would dream of that fire at some nights even how many weeks that it was over.
Good thing after two years, my parents-in-law requested that we transfer to their big house, to which up to now it’s where we stay.
Have you ever experienced being near a place where there is a fire ongoing?
Did you also got scared and frantic.
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Oh.It looks like a great escape. Such experience became very common in Hyderabad, especially in summer. But, these are confined to an area where most of the residents live in huts and thatched houses.
I had this experience only once when I was on tour and happened to stay in my friend's room. It was a room attached to a house. After attending the daily work we slept deeply and there was no one other than we too.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. The owner was knocking the door. I opened the door in the sleep itself only to be informed that the adjacent house caught on fire. I could not understand him as most of the houses are cement roofed. When I expressed my doubt he told me that one of the rooms of the house is not having a concrete roof and it is a thatched one meant only for resting during a summer season and that it had been richly furnished one.
we both rushed to the spot and helped the owner of the house poured buckets of water and brought it under control. There was only minimum damage to the costly articles inside the house.
Oh good thing , all of you helped in stopping the fire.
Here fires usually happen in squatter areas where the houses are of light materials and are very adjacent to one another. One house burning would end up hundreds of houses burned at the end of the fire.
Then when the fire truck arrives, it sometimes cannot go into those very narrow pathways, thus the hose can only be at those that it can reach.
And some scrupulous persons would take advantage of the situation and would steal those saved appliances that were usually place on the open where they can't be reached by the fire.