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A Dreadful Accident

mom and she had shouted at me to just leave it

until after we had finished making lunch.

Now we both shrieked as the flames spread

quickly around. I threw the kitchen towels on the

flame to try to put it out but instead, they caught
fire too.

My mom shouted at me to stop doing nonsense.

She grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the

house. When we were outside, she shouted that

we needed to get water to put out the fire.

We ran to the back of the house where the

buckets were and went by the pipe to fetch some

water. It took a while to fill the buckets. All the

while, we were anxiously looking for any signs of

smoke coming out of the kitchen window and

hoping that it would not spread too much.

Once the buckets were full, we ran as though our

lives depended on it. When we were outside the

house, we tried to open the door but it would not

budge.

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