Yesterday night at 11, I went to the living room and smelled something strange like burning. I ran to the kitchen but the stove was turned off. Thinking it was probably my neighbor making her midnight snack, I just left it alone and was about to sleep. But the burning smell filled my room too. That's when suddenly my mom yelled, "Elise, come look at this! A building is burning!" I ran out to the living room window and saw flames going up in a building about five streets away.

I always thought that the way firefighters rush into a flaming building to save citizens looked so awesome and heroic. But yesterday, seeing in reality a 4-floor building burning up in flames was really scary.