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One of my favorite TV shows growing up was Emergency! — a show that any little boy would love with fire trucks, lights and sirens, firefighters, lights and sirens, ambulances, lights and sirens, exciting action, lights and sirens…

Last night, it hit a little too close to home, though. We had our own EMERGENCY!

Fortunately, everything turned out okay in the end, except for a few minor, but painful injuries. But it gave everyone a big scare.

I was relaxing in my recliner. Ashley was doing something else (I’m not sure what). Sarah was working on a class assignment that involved making churros, “a fried-dough pastry-based snack,” for her class. Karla was helping her.

Karla and Sarah were deep-frying the pastries. All of a sudden one of the pieces of dough exploded and then another. Boiling oil splattered everywhere — on the ceiling, on the surrounding walls, on the kitchen floor. A flash of flame lit up the stove area. Both Karla and Sarah cried out — partly because they were startled, partly because they had been sprayed with hot oil and partly because the situation was plain terrifying. They instinctively backed away, but Karla fell backwards because of the frying oil that had coated the floor. Continued