Nasty times for the people living at the bottom of one of the short alleys just behind the sandy football pitch: yesterday afternoon, just after school, a fire broke out, sending black smoky billows up and scattering ashes as far as on our roof. While the boys were playing at Jovi's place (one of Michele's schoolmate), Mattia went down to see if he could give a hand passing buckets of water and despite the arrival of the bomberos (firemen) that was actually the case, as the fire was so big it took the hoses some time to quench it, so in the meantime people kept resorting to their buckets, throwing water from a nearby house's terrace, entered to their eyes and lungs peril, reason why volunteers were taking turns (Mattia did it just once). Luckily, no-one got injured and only one house got badly damaged as the fire then raged through the wood spreading downhill; however, Abigail, in Michele's class, told us this morning that her roof caught fire and her bed too.
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