There was a village called Salem, where I was born and brought up. There was a time we traveled home with my younger ones to our grandmother's place to give her food and keep the children with her, hoping to stay with her for a few days. It was harvest season and we were at the farm harvesting the crops , but unfortunately,the day that we were to take them to our grandmother's place, it was raining heavily, so we could not take them that day. We have to travel and visit our grandmother and give her the food stuffs only, two days after we came back from our journey, we were ask to go to the farm and harvest yams, and we all went to the farm and since we were not staying long and the farm was not too far from the house, we decide to leave four children at home, two boys, one girl and an infant.
A few minutes after we left the home to the farm, we started hearing children shouting, fire, fire. We all rushed home to see what was happening, reaching home we saw the house that the infant was in burning, and saw the small girl coming out of the house with a baby and she was crying. We asked what happen after quenching the fire, then one of the boys that we left at home together was called and we inquired from him what really happened and he started explain that, when their sister went out of the house, he was playing with his brother inside the house so his brother asking him to put on the fire and put it inside the kerosene that nothing will happen, that kerosene is just like water when it is much it will not catch fire and he told his brother that it will produce much fire but his brother insisted that nothing will happen, so after so much argument, the younger one with his little understanding,put on the fire , taking it close to where the kerosene was kept in container, not knowing that beside the kerosene container, they was a petrol (fuel,) in another container that they usually put in the generator, and the fuel receive the fire , when the fire started increasing and getting hotter,they started pulling water on the fire.it became too much and they could not it off, they run out of the living room leaving the small infant inside the building.
It was at that time they started crying, then the small girl that was outside the room playing heard the cry and noticed her two brothers running and fire inside the building. His younger brother was inside and she had to run inside the building that was on fire, and brought out his younger brother. Before we came and called other people to come and help us quench the fire. That was how that small baby was saved by that small heroic young girl.