Incredible storytelling, I was holding my breath, as if my room too had limited oxygen.

Things are so much scarier as a child - we don't understand a lot of what is going and seeing otherwise calm adults as angry/confused can be destabilizing.

Glad you, your family, and the house were okay. Phew.

Fires and its power...just the thought of it is hard to comprehend. I have so much respect for people to go in to fight/control it, to protect others.