Saturday, May 11, 2019

Fire outside Askari IV


We will get a better view from on top of that ladder Bilal,  I’ll go first you come next, ok?  Fine,  he replied. Thus off I went climbing that ladder and yes as expected I could see the fire in those slums. It was a Sunday night I remember clearly me and my family came from our nani's house while returning home we saw it. 

A big large fire in the slums right behind the wall separating Askari with the empty ground. Smoke covered the sky and the long tongues of the flames licked the ground. A fire brigade will be needed to extinguish this fire said my father and he was absolutely right. I rushed upstairs and shouted Bilal come down there is a large fire near the park oh I know he replied ok really its now much brighter if you want to come, come or else don’t I am going ok I am coming  he replied we rushed down the stairs and went down don’t go near my father said.ok we both said and paced towards the end of the park it was a devastating fire for what we saw was that the electricity had gone in the houses next to the fire the fire had come onto the walls and a fire brigade came to the fire in front of me and it was a very huge one and kinda had all the necessary provisions in it and then another one came and then another one and another one then came two water tankers  and a truck filled with sand to extinguish it but something was missing thus I went home fetched a pair of binoculars and came down now I went towards the door from which anyone could go to the fire I went so near that I could pass my hand through the door and then I looked through the binoculars the flames were hungry for more and more land and covered almost all of it I over heard a few people talking and asking the guard what happened one man asked why is it taking so long to extinguish he replied a fire brigade had already gone and now 5 more were called then another man asked what had caused this to which he replied someone burnt the garbage and forgot about it  through carelessness it spread and went out of control another man asked how much more time would it take and the guard replied an hour or two then a woman asked if it was a danger for us who lived within the premises of Askari and his reply was maybe because there was an electric station near the fire if the fire reached that place a huge explosion would happen causing the fire to come to askari
Next me and bilal went to the starting of the street and saw a girl younger then me climb a ladder she gave me the courage to climb it thus I handed my binoculars to Bilal and climbed it I went to the top and could see fire men throwing water on it.    


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