F is for Fire (no...really)

This is just going to be a quick post with no pictures. Today, while making dinner, my doorbell rang. Now, ordinarily, unless I need something from the store, I don't answer. Well, I didn't answer, then about 10 minutes later, it rings again. This time I go to the door thinking that it is my DH coming home from work. Not so. There was alot of commotion in the hallway. People running up and down the stairs with buckets of water. And then I heard the T word for fire and I saw the smoke. There was a fire on our roof caused from the roof repairs and who knows? Maybe the man with the flame thrower who was melting the tar paper on there today. I proceeded to yell upstairs at Keke to get out of bed (she came home sick today) and start running around trying to turn off the stove and lights. We get J's boots and jacket on and I pick up the baby from the crib. We give the men what water we had, not sure it helped though, and we leave. As we end up downstairs, a family from the school (who had called during this commotion and informed me my roof was on fire) met us at the elevator and took us to their house. Their house just happens to be in the other building, opposite from ours, and we were able to watch the fire fighters come to put out the all-most-extinguished fire. It was after I left that I thought of a million things I should have taken - like the passports and birth certificates but I ultimately got the items that mean the most to me - my children. That was all I was thinking about, getting them out safely. After, about one hour or so, the fire fighters left and we were able to go back into our apartment. I was concerned I would see water in the apartment but the only problem it looks like we are going to have is in the upstairs bathroom. It seems the foam/water has leaked onto the ceiling. I hope it dries and won't get moldy. We have a problem with that here and the new roof was supposed to fix that. What can I say-life is an adventure here, never a dull moment. The ironic thing about this is that we are working on the letter F and I had planned on discussing fire safety with J. Now, we had experienced it first hand. Won't that be a memorable lesson?