**A House on Fire**
I was about to sleep when I heard shouts, ‘, ’. I rushed out and saw old Mrs. Gupta’ bedroom on spewing out thick smoke. I along with a few neighbours went straight into her house to help her. As we went inside that burning home we saw Mrs. Gupta upstairs. She was on her wheelchair, outside a room whose door had completely burnt. The carpet and the stairs were burning but somehow we managed to get upstairs. As we carried her downstairs, she kept on shouting, ‘I am not leaving without Mark !’ Mark was her 10 year old dog. He was and paralysed. Perhaps he was in the same room, outside which Mrs. Gupta stood on her wheelchair. Mrs. Gupta was saved, but we couldn’t help Mark. She started mourning for her dog. Suddenly, we heard the hooter of the brigade. Someone had informed them. Within next fifteen minutes, the * was completely put out and Mark was saved but with a few minor burns.
