Personal Narrative: Firefighters

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Have you ever been in a situation that you could lose everything you have ever had well. When I was 7 years old we had to evacuate because there was a wild fire up in the mountains near our neighborhood, there was so much commotion around our neighborhood we didn’t know even what to do.
The firefighters had kept a close eye on our neighborhood since last week we knew there was a wild fire around our neighborhood, but we never knew it was that close to our house. It was early in the day when we were just having a normal day until there was a knock on the door, I wondered who it was one of the firemen came to our house and said that we had to evacuate everyone in the neighborhood because the fire was getting bigger and closer.
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