A school boy and fire

One day a boy was going to school. Suddenly he saw smoke. It was coming out of a house. He went in. He saw a house on fire………………………………………

A  school boy and fire

One day a boy was going to school. Suddenly he saw smoke. It was coming out of a house. He went in. He saw a house on fire. There was nobody else near the fire. Only a few women were running to and fro. They were crying bitterly. The boy thought that there might be somebody in the house. He could not come out. It was burning very fiercely. The house was build with corrugated tin sheet and wooden structure. The tin sheets of the house caught fire. But the problem was that there was no nearby source of water. Some were crying while some were making hue and cry. People collected water from a distant source. They brought water in drums, pails, buckets. They took a long time to extinguish the fire. Though the fire was extinguished, no valuable things could be saved from the fire. Many people came forward to help them. Some gave bamboos, some gave wood. Some gave money, some gave food and clothes. So the family again erected a house.