A Burning House in Maycomb
By Malena JimenezQ
A huge fire started in Maudie Atkinson’s house in Maycomb County, Alabama. Fire had begun spewing from the dining room windows, and awoken neighbors have begun to help push the County’s fire truck while the loud sirens wailed across the cold night. Other neighbors began to help pull furniture from the house engulfed in flames.
While pushing the furniture, Dick Avery had to come down from the 2nd floor, but had become stuck in the flames.
Neighbors rushed all together to the fire truck and furniture, but soon as the fire got too big, the neighbor's backed away and couldn’t retrieve any more furniture because the fire had already gone up to the second floor making the fire bigger, and furniture was no longer able to be retrieved.
One neighbor had gone onto the top of the house to guide where the water would have to hit the fire. While the firefighters shot the water, the man would point places that needed the water the most. Which helped the men put down the fire faster.
Once the men were putting out the fire, a second fire truck arrived to help, but didn’t have another fire hydrant to use, so the newly arrived firemen had tried to use the handheld fire extinguishers they were equipped with.
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After the fire had gone down, Maudie has explained on how she’s “Always wanted a smaller house.”
Young Jean Louise asked why she wasn’t grieving over her burnt house.
As Maudie said “Gives me more yard. Just think, I’ll have more room for my Azaleas now.”
She also explained how she hated her “Old cow barn” and how she thought about setting fire to it about a hundred times.
Nobody knows how the fire started by Maudie believes it’s the fire she left to warm up her house in the kitchen, which may have been to close to some potted plants.
Though her possessions are gone and her beloved garden is in shambles, she seems has happy and lively as ever, but was only bothered by the commotion it had caused.