Johann Low

日曜日, 3月 20, 2005

[Forest Fire!]

Its another hot,stuffy and lazy Sun afternoon. The type which u will rather stay at home n nap rather than going out to anywhere, at least for me.

While I was surfing in my room after an early lunch, my mum came into my room telling me that there was a forest fire at the patch of forested land behind the bus stop opposite my block. I looked out the window and i see tongues of the fire flickering thru the little patch of forest. There was a discerning crackling sound while the fire razed the trees,grasses and shrubs.

Soon the fire got bigger and it was spreading fast to the left engulfing more n more trees. The smoke thickened and raised into the air like a column of gray clouds. Bits n pieces of the ashed remains of the grasses and trees flow all over like conffetti into my kitchen and some into my room. My mum panicked upon seeing all these soot and quickly closed the windowz to prevent more from coming it. She just cleaned our flat this ytd.

I made a call to 995. Well I was assured that the firemen were on the way. In less than 2 min after I made the call, they came n immediately went on to spray jets of water onto the fire. Oh yeah, I rem there was a hornet or wasp which flew into my room minutes b4 the fire. Mayb some smoke was already present then?

Anyway, this little incident also made me to realise the importance of having a fire extinguisher in my home. I should be getting one soon at Singpost.

elow at 11:03 午後 |

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