Personal Narrative: Stressed Out

Feeling exhausted, I focus on my breathing. I breath in through my nose and then out through my mouth, breath in and out. Repeat. After passing the mile mark, my coach is shrieking for me to relax, because I am on my way to qualify for cross country states. The top twenty girls qualify, and I have been dreaming of this day since freshman year. All I have to do is hold my position, and then I am golden. Suddenly, my legs begin to feel like jello. My running partner slowly fades ahead of me, and I cannot keep up. It feels like I am running backwards as the rest of my teammates pass me one by one. Fighting fatigue, I tell myself I am finishing this race, whether or not I have to crawl like a turtle to do so. I am crossing that finish line.

“I don’t know,” I replied. It shot 36 fireworks into the crowd. It finally stopped shooting fireworks. No one was angry at me and my friend. Thankfully no one got hurt and everyone made it home safely. That night I learned not to put fireworks on an incline.

It was a cold January morning. The smell of fire was strong throughout the air and smoke filled the room. There was a strong, loud beeping sound throughout the house. It wasn’t just coming from one place, it was coming from multiple. My family hurries to find our animals as we call 911. I can’t be dreaming, is this real life?

When the chief saw that his men were being pushed back he sent a young firefighter rushing to Goll’s Drugstore to send in an alarm for reinforcements. When the firefighter got there Goll was gone so he broke the glass that guarded the alarm box and pushed the button down. Unfortunately, he forgot to push it down a second time telling the office that it was a message for reinforcements. Instead the alarm office at the courthouse thought it was another person turning in the exact same fire. So they never sent in extra trucks. It wasn’t until the watchman from different station saw that the fire and the extra trucks were sent. By then it was too late the flames were now too big for any of the trucks to handle. The fire soon grew bigger and bigger. Then it started to move to the west side of Chicago. At first people thought it would be no big deal. But soon they saw it advance to their homes with big orange and crimson flames. Hundreds of people rushed to flee

Smoke and flames were spewing out of gaping holes bored by American Airlines’ Boeing 767 that crashed between the 93 and 99 floors on the North face of the 110- story building. Each of the North Tower floors were roughly an acre. The top 20 floors engulfed in flames, he was staring at a 20- acre fire raging 90 stories above. He thought in his head that, This is the most unbelievable sight I’ve ever seen. Meldrum parked the fire truck on the West Street in front of the

One man saw the fire and tried to get someone to use the fire box to get the fire department to send a fire truck. Sadly he had no such luck in notifying them. Fire boxes were boxes located on the street corner for people to use to alert the closest fire department, because telephones were not commonly available at that time. The other man just insisted that a fire truck had probably already been called and was on its way. The fire was so destructive because there were many mistakes and dangerous

All you hear is the detonation of the firework exploding and then everyone hears the ear splitting cracking of the tree, as it falls down onto the ground exploding into flames! It’s on fire, the flames almost 20 feet high, the tree catches another on fire, as that one burns it spreads onto the next tree, then the next, ablazing everything until it gets to a backyard. A distressed adult named Alysa who is actually the mayor of the town of Woodsterville, who lives right down the street of the fire calls the Fire department and they send five trucks, with four people in them, over 20 in total.

This was a very terrifying fire it destroyed many homes and killed many adults and many kids too

The roaring fire ripped through Sherwood one August afternoon and steadily continued until the next morning. The dry grass and blazing heat were several factors that contributed to this catastrophe. There was physical damage from the surrounding wildlife. The heat from the blaze was like a Sea of Flames. The fire took it’s toll on the nearby companies. Officials report that one firefighter was injured when the train tracks collapsed. Another firefighter had to saw his leg out and he went to the hospital. The story behind what happened and who did it is still a big catechism. They have an idea that it had something to do with a man and 3 minors.

The smoke smell started to get stronger like everyone gathered around us was smoking a cigarette, but when I lifted my head back to look at the firefighters they were all ducking as more black smoke poured out of my house like a giant chimney. I waited anxiously for the firefighters to actually put out the

During the event, a lot of people were excited and content, clearly in the mood for celebrating. Smaller children started to grow anxious because they were ready for the fireworks to start. Halfway through the fireworks show, one set of fireworks accidentally triggered a lot of fireworks to go off at ground level. Everyone at the event started to grow worried that someone was hurt, but luckily no one was injured and the firework show was finished as

The blaze jumped over the highway into a nearby cattle property. Which then burnt out just over 100 acres of precious grass. Property owners Mrs

June 4, 2012 a fire broke out in the Lincoln National Forest just north of Ruidoso, NM. The fire was to be called the Little Bear Fire and in the end engulfed about 44,000 acres and destroyed 254 structures. Of the structures burnt, 242 of those were homes. The fire was caused by lightening and was initially a very small fire. A team of Mescalero firefighters was dropped into the scene by helicopter

Day 1: I have arrived in Gatlinburg, Tennessee to help victims of the tragedies that have occurred during the lethal fires spreading throughout the Great Smokey Mountains. The team and I have brought water supplies to last until our last day, along with food and other snacks. So far, we have not yet discovered what started these fires. Our team has decided to put non injured victims into a hotel until finding them a new shelter. 14,000 residents were evacuated from Gatlinburg around noon. The fires continue to grow and roar at the innocent mountains that several claim home. Winds were up to 70 mph, forcing the fires to continue and spread throughout the forests.

A large pool of water was brought by another fire truck minutes later. Fire fighters entered my house with axes and hoses. Neighbors were drawn by flashing lights to make a crowd outside my house. My brother arrived and had no clue what was going on he parked a ways down the road to give the trucks enough room. He came up to us and asked what had happened and we said that we didn’t know what started to fire in the first place. We looked at the firefighter walking out the front door to only discover that he was holding Fluffy alive in his arms. He walked over to us and told us that we had a very smart dog and that he was actually walking towards the firefighter and walked right into his arms. He was going to be taken to the vet to get checked for burns but he looked in great shape. He then told us that the crock pot with meat in it had spilled into the outlet causing a spark that caused the fire. In the end I was bummed to find out that my house was gone but a man called us and told us that we had just won a vacation on a trip to Costa Rica. When we came back from our 7 day trip there was a huge truck that was blocking our driveway. When we stepped outside of our car the truck moved. We had just been on Extreme Home Makeover and we had a brand new house and our own pool and Fluffy had his own room with all of his toys. I think that my room ended up being the