Stephanie Casanova
芝加哥Tribune
（MCT）
Tomorra Watts is grateful she walked over to her brother’s house for a cigarette Saturday afternoon in their Roseland neighborhood.
After chatting with him, she stepped outside and spotted a fire truck speeding down their street and realized there was smoke coming out of her home.
Watts, 50, went back inside and told her brother that her house was on fire.
“I don’t know what happened,” she told reporters. “All I know is I hope the fire people that got hurt is safe. And I’m glad that I was not there.”
瓦特几乎在火中失去了一切，开始下午3:15。在西112号街区的200个街区的一个家庭，1-1 / 2册框架房子。
它还留下了几个消防员，非危及危险性伤害，包括一个爆发的“闪络”，而船员正在作战火焰，导致五月天的紧急呼叫。
“I don’t have nothing,” Watts sobbed as her brother gave her a hug.
“You got family, that’s all you need,” said her brother, Bernard Watts.
When firefighters got there, Watts had already left “before it went bad,” but firefighters burst inside to battle the fire, said Chicago Fire Dept. spokesman Larry Langford.
在向记者发表讲话时，她闯入了泪水。
“Look at my house!” she said, leaning into her neighbor and sister’s arms looking across the street at her home.
“You guys don’t know how hard I’ve worked,” said Watts, who has lived there for about 6 years. “When I moved in there I had nothing but a TV and a bag of clothes.”
But Watts, who is usually always home, said she was grateful she had decided to leave her house when she did.
兰福德说，她家里的房子里的房子里的所有窗户，树木衬里的街道吹出来，这意味着“闪光灯”很可能是“闪光瓶”。
A flashover occurs when there’s something in the air that gets to a temperature where it actually combusts, Langford said.
With a flashover, usually there’s smoke that suddenly turns to flames and that is similar to what we think of as a “backdraft,” Langford said. “It’s an influx of air. It’s a lot air coming and through and fire just erupts rapidly.”
The situation also included a “shock wave of some kind that caused the rapid expansion of fire.” It was not an explosion, however, Langford said.
It was extremely dangerous for firefighters, causing a Mayday call, which elevates their response and means a firefighter is in danger or isn’t accounted for.
As of 5 p.m. six firefighters and a possible seventh were injured, four of whom were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and the rest to Little Company of Mary in Evergreen Park. None of the injuries were life-threatening, Langford said.
Angie Williams, 56, who lives across the street from Watts was in her room sewing when she heard a loud “bang” outside.
她的女儿，26岁的杰西卡威廉姆斯试图小睡一下，但留下了近街上的急诊卡车。杰西卡跑到楼上的窗户，看看正在发生的事情。
“The roof was filled with flames and smoke,” Jessica Williams said.
Around 5:30 p.m., the fire trucks had left and fire inspectors walked through the home, the light on their helmets on as they photographed the damage.
There was no indication yet what caused the fire, which was extinguished and the alarms called off by 4:45 p.m., but the Office of Fire Investigation is looking into it.
“与五月天，你不知道你在处理什么，直到你掌握在消防员身上，”Langford说。
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