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“Get up, get up we have to go we have to go!”
Said my dad as he started to pull me up of my bed,
All I could see when I looked at my windows was red and I was finding it hard to breath as my dad was shaking me to get up.
“Dad whats going on why is it red outside my window”
“now's no time to be asking questions just get yourself together”
What is happening I thought to myself as I slowly became more aware of what was going on around me.

All I could see around me was red and orange I felt like I was in hell,
I could barely breath I felt really hot then I clicked oh my god it's a fire,
My heart started to race and I was panicking thinking what to do were to go then my dad came to me and said “we have to go now.”
I couldn't move I was frozen
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He started to smash the wood with his hands I could see all this blood on his hands on his leg.
He kept on smashing at the wood I could hear the wood cracking and smashing eventually his leg got loose and he got up, he started limping down the stairs.
When he got down to the bottom he looked up at me and told me which stair rungs it was safe to stand on.
I started to follow his instructions and going down the stairs slowly when I got to the bottom Dad hugged me and said “well done Lou you did well.”
He tried to open the garage door but it was jammed, Dad started to ram into the door smack went the door as Dad was ramming into the door the door soon then came crashing down revealing what was left of our
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When we got outside I quickly looked back at the house and I could see it covered in a fiery blanket I started to cry Dad told me not to look around but I just couldn't look away all I could see was orange everything was on fire everything “Dad why is everything on fire i'm really really scared where are we going to go Dad”
“stop Lou everything will be fine”
“how Dad how will everything be fine our whole house has been burned down we have nothing left we have nowhere to go”
“look just trust me.”
I could tell that he was lying and he knew that I was right we drove for about half an hour into the town I still couldnt process what was

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