PT3 Essay - A fire (Newsaper Report)
The picture below shows a fire accident in KampungHulu.
Based on the pictures given,write a report for Straits Time newspaper.
When writing your report:
-describe what happened
-state the possible cause of this accident
-suggests ways to prevent such incident from happening
KAMPUNG HULU-9 Nov, A wooden house in KampungHulu has catcher caught fire in the yesterday early morning. At about , the fire brigade received a call from a 30-year-old lady.She was panicked as she couldn'tcould not find locate ways to exit out from the house.After 10 minutes, the fire engine arrived at the scene.The They quickly took out the hose and put out the fire.
After putting extinguishing out the fire, the firemen break broke into the house to save the lady.The firemen found out that one of the lady's children were burnt had perished in the fire. The lady who called the fire brigade was found fainted due to the lack of oxygen. Luckily,she was returned regained to consciousness after receiving treatment at the hospital. She was quite shocked and cried after hearing that one of her children had died.
Based on her statement, the fire is was due to her carelessness. She had put the match box at a reachable place to that her children were able to reach. Her five-year-old son who got curios when seeing the match box and started to play with it the matches. He lighted lit up the a match stick and throw threw it on the floor. The flame from the match stick which hadn't extinguishedthat had been quickly spread out. His mother who was cooking in kitchen also didn't did not think something was amiss.
Out of nowhere,she heard the screams of her child and ran towards the room. The fire spread quickly and the whole house was caught on fire. As the saying goes,curiosity killed the cat. During his naivety, he the boy�s action costs his own life. She stopped crying after hearing that her another other child was alive as there iswas no use to cry over spilt milk.
As the saying goes, fire is a good servant but a bad master. The fire brigade officers advised the public to be more careful in the future.We should place the match box at place which is could not be reachable to by children. We should also place a fire extinguisher in our house.We should also always put an eye on the children.Last but not least, put child-lock on the stove (note :not logical to put child-lock on the stove, perhaps install child�s safety gate at the kitchen doorway).