Newspaper Article about the fire incident

2. Write a newspaper article / report on an incident that happened in the novel.

Just hours ago, a fire broke out in Maycomb County. At around 2a.m. in the early hours of the day, the entire town was woken up by fumes of smoke bursting out from Ms. Maudie's house, to be exact, her dining-room.

Men dressed in pyjamas, some half-dressed, flooded the streets, each trying his best to save the house on fire. There was a whole line of men lining up from Ms. Maudie's house to the yard across the street, desperately hoarding out furniture. Battling the flames.

"Help him! Someone help him!" Were the cries from the residents around the area. The reason being that as a fellow resident of the village was way up in Ms Maudie's house, hurling furniture out of the window. Continuous shouts could be heard throughout the entire Maycomb County, "Come down from there, Dick! The stairs are going! Get outta there, Mr. Avery!" Luck was not in favour of them at times as the old firetruck failed to respond and function properly, having huge crowds of men urging it forward by hand.

Minutes later, Mr. Avery made a heroic ascend down the house, but slipped and fell on shrubbery. Thank God he was safe. The time was 4.17a.m., the sun was coming up and the men started backing away from the house. The fire was well into the second floor and had eaten it's way to the roof: window-frames were charred black against a vivid orange centre.

The hoses continued to let out strong gusts of water as finally, a firetruck from Abbotsville came to the rescue. The fires licked the other neighbouring houses relentlessly, one by one attempting to consume them. The Abbotsville firetruck began pumping water on the houses, slowly dousing the fire. Maycomb County were then at peace.

Some of the residents were later interviewed. We asked if their house was affected by the fire and how they felt:

"My, my. This sure was one heck a night! Anyway, I hated that old cow barn. Thought of settin' fire to it a hundred times myself, except the'd lock me up."" I guess it caught...probably the flue in the kitchen. I kept a fire in there last night for my potted plants."

"Yessum. It burnt bit of my roof off!"replied Ms. Jean Louise Finch, daughter of Atticus Finch.

For now Maycomb County rests, while the Sheriff and company carry out further investigation on this matter.