Fire Fighting!

If u live long enuf, i hope u will never experience what i have just experienced today..

Today i learned... If u live long enuf, u might experienced flood, snow, electricity cut, financial tightness, serious illnesses, and last but not least... FIRE in ur own home!!

This afternoon, while maid S and I were baking a cake, all of a sudden the stove exploded!! (Well, eventually we learned that its not the stove, but the gas tank was leaking..)

I was upstairs with E and maid S, while maid N was cleaning up the downstairs..
Maid N was the one who discover and saw the fire first and she panicked!
Upstairs, we heard a big BANG sound and heard maid N screaming loudly, we thought she fell or something... We ran down as quickly as we could to see whats going on.. And then it dawn on me that the stove is on FIRE!

My first reaction was to calm down and bring E away from this chaos...
While trying to remember if i have anything that can help in fire emergency.. I really wished i have the red fire fighter tank.. So i called my husband and asked him, if we have such a thing.. In the mean time, there was another BANG! And the fire is getting bigger... Once i heard my husband's answer was a "no", i tried to think of another way to put the fire down... Then i saw the tap and hose not too far from my kitchen... So quickly pull the hose and ask maid S to open the tap, while im pointing the hose at the burning stove... I dont want to wet my kitchen, but i dont have a choice.. The whole house and our safety are far more important than the kitchen.. So, yeah, just like what E said.. I was like a fire fighter... Haha..

In the mean time, i asked any maid to call the security guards to help out.. And then the guy came... And help me to put down the fire...

Once the fire is down.. We can hear "hissss" sound... And apparently, it was the gas leaking from the side...

After that adrenalin rush incident, i found myself playing many different scenarios in my head..

First of all, im so thankful to God that no one is hurt! He protects us and keeps us safe...

2ndly, im glad i decided not to leave the house today... Or else, if this kind of thing happen and im not around, i cannot imagine how the maids are going to handle it... They were absolutely panicked and couldnt do anything.. But im also glad they were there with me at that moment, or else i wouldnt be able to handle a kid and a fire by myself, while calling for help at the same time..

3rdly, im very2 thankful that we find it out quickly, at the right time and we can still saved the kitchen... Really, the harm is not as bad as it could become...

4thly, now im really2 glad that we used good quality products... So the damage is very minimal..

Bottom line is, im just so very thankful!
We are all safe... No body is injured...
Somehow, it felt just like a bad dream...
But the smell of smoke in house and the burnt stove are the real evidence it really did happened.. We have a little trauma of using stove and the gas tank... All of a sudden u dont feel safe at ur own home... But we gotta move on and try to be more cautious...

Im writing this down as a reminder to myself and my family, that God is real! Prayer does work! And God's protection knows no boundaries!

In spite of this unfortunate incident.. My heart can only be thankful and rejoice that my God is alive and He does care and protects us from harm...