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The firefighter did not let him go because he knew that the very next

moment, Zan would run into the house.

“It‟s all right, they‟ll get her,” he said.

He said that the other firefighters would bring her back.

He wrapped a blanket around me and sat me down in our car. Soon

after that, a fireman emerged from our house with my mom in tow. He

quickly took her over to the truck and put an oxygen mask on her. I ran

over and hugged her. All those times I ever argued with her and hated

her vanished at the thought of losing her.

In tow: behind

The firefighter wrapped a blanket around Zan and made him sit in their

car. A fireman came out of the house with Zan’s mother behind him. He

took her to the fire truck and put an oxygen mask on her mouth. Zan ran

to her and hugged her. The thought of losing his mother aroused

affection in Zan’s heart and all thoughts of dislike vanished from his

mind.

“She‟s going to be okay,” said the fireman. “She just inhaled a little

smoke.” And then he ran back to fight the fire while my mother and I sat

there dazed. I remember watching my house burn down and thinking

that there was nothing I could do about it.

The fireman calmed Zan and said that she’d be

fine. She had inhaled smoke. Then the fireman

ran into the house to bring down the fire while

the mother - son duo sat there wondering on

what had happened. Zan still remembers how he saw his house burn

and felt helpless about it.