Little Sparky Research Paper

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Little sparky The year was 1999, at this time I was only at the young age of 7 years old. I was just your average 7-year-old kid, not capable of any thing too extraordinary. I was at my dad’s apartment and it was a weekend, A Saturday night to be exact. I remember that because we were both watching a NASCAR night race, back in the day when I was a NASCAR race fan. While watching the race on what I thought was just going to be another normal day I began to smell something. But not like someone was grilling out or cooking, it was something odd. How my dad didn’t smell this first is beyond me. Maybe younger kids have a better sence of smell. While I gathered possibilities of what the smell was in my head, I started realizing that it was…show more content…
Maybe he just thought I was being a silly 7 year old sing our neighbors grill going. As he didn’t react the way I wanted him to I shot up off the couch and said “look out side, the dupster is on fire and I think 2 kids started it!!” by the time my dad saw the fire and freaked out I was already running out the door. I could still see the 2 kids that looked like younger teenagers running away. Now while you would think a kid at that age would run away to a safe place, I ended up going outside to find the hose that was outside. My dad was calling 911 and also trying to shout at me to come back, but I didn’t listen, for some reason I just wanted to put out the fire. While I know now that it wasent able to put out the huge dumpster fire with a garden hose, I was able to contain it. I continued to put water on the fire, putting the sprayer on the highest pressure setting. I had to arch the hose to make the stream land on the flame, due to the fact that the hose was not long enough to get too close. I continued to spray the dumpster using every way I have seen firefighters do on TV. Luckly the Cuddhy fire station number 2 was just a few blocks away, so the firefighters arrived on the scene fast. I watched in amazement and awe as they knocked down the fire
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