Great story @izzynaveda! Good thing your Grandfather was so fast acting! 😮 I'm very glad everything turned out all well, as I'm sure was everyone else in your family! 😊

Thanks so much for submitting your story. So far you have a very good chance of winning! 😉

It actually reminds me of a similar story of mine, from when I was about 10 years old.
My two younger brothers and I were out in the backyard and for some reason took it upon ourselves to get rid of a big anthill in our backyard. Being boys, we, of course, decided that gasoline would be a good way to do that. So, being the oldest I poured some of the gasoline we had somehow acquired ( I think it was the stuff for the lawnmower) on the anthill and lit it on fire. All was going well until I decided that more gas was needed on the fire. So I poured some more on. Being 10, I had no idea what would happen. What did happen is that the fire RACED right up the stream of gas!! I panicked and dropped the bowl of gas I had in my hand. It splattered everywhere and, very unfortunately, some drops of it landed on the bare legs of my 2-year-old brother!!

Well, I don't know how it happened but somehow my mother, who was way in the front of the house, heard our screams and I think teleported the distance because she was there in a couple of seconds, or even less it seemed like. She rolled my poor baby brother in the grass and the fire went right out and he was left with some very minor burns on his legs. Still a terrible thing! But it could've and would've been much worse if not for the fast and proper action of my SUPERmom 😇

I, of course, felt terrible for months. In fact, I still feel bad when I think of it, all these many years later. My parents didn't even punish me because they knew how horrible I felt. And needless to say, I never carelessly played with fire again! .....well, ok, almost never! ( I mean I was a little boy, after all! 😎)