Drama in the neighbourhood

Last night was a really weird one. Everyone was in bed and in the middle of my sleep I heard a really loud banging on the door. You know what it's like when you're asleep and it takes you a while to wake up. Anyway, the banging carried on and to be honest I was really scared cos I thought it was a certain someone from my family who had come to cause trouble! Eventually my mum ran downstairs and answered the door and it was our next-door neighbour and she'd come to tell us to get out cos her house was on fire! So I got Andrew out of bed and grabbed the dog and we went outside. It was actually the shed that had caught fire but you could see the tips of the flames and the smoke from the front. A few minutes later the fire engines arrived and it was so noisy cos they had to pump the water through. I didn't have a clue what time it was untill another neighbour told me it was 2am! We ended up being out there for a whole hour and half because the fire men had to check our house to be safe.

So since last night we've had to have literally every window in our house open because the smoke was really strong and had spread into our house. It's amazing how it all spreads, I walked into my room and you could actually see a sort of fog from the smoke and mum said that when she wiped her finger across the kitchen surface it was black.

Lets just say that we will be sure to get a smoke alarm very soon.