Bang! The truck backfires as it goes up in flames, I could smell the smoke. As we were standing at the top of the hill, we watch the truck burn to ashes. My Brother, my Mom, and I wait for my Dad to come over, he was in the other field. My Dad says, “Where’s the fireman,’’ because we thought the truck was going to explode.    

My family and I were spotting deer when our spotlight went out. So, we plugged it in the back, we didn’t think anything of it.    

As we were driving down the road my Mom says, ‘’ What’s that smell?’’  

We all glanced forward and saw smoke coming out of the fuse box.  

That day we had to take the tools out of the back of my Dad’s truck. So, we couldn’t really do anything. We never thought that this would happen in a million years.  

My brother said,” C’mon, let’s go up towards the top of the hill, if it explodes.” As we were walking up the hill my Mom calls 911 and gets fire trucks to come.  

As she hung up, she yelled to my Dad, “Mike get back,” with scarce.    

My Dad walked over and said, “There’s nothing we can do.”    

As we were watching the truck burn, we were just expecting the truck to blow up because, we just got a full tank of gas.    

  We were also like two miles away from our house, so we called the neighbor to come and pick me and my brother up.    

Although, it was upsetting, the firemen came as the neighbors picked us up. My other brother was still at college, so I called him and told him what had happened so, he came home.    

The next day, we went to go see the truck at the place where the tow truck put it. I could tell my dad was upset about what happened because he didn’t talk, and it was a pretty good truck because it was in decent condition, we just put a full tank of gas in it, a new transmission in it, it wasn’t that rusty, it had new tires, and we just put new seat covers in the night before. 

The next day, we went to go see the truck at the place where the tow truck put it. I could tell my dad was upset about what happened because he didn’t talk, and it was a pretty good truck because it was in decent condition, we just put a full tank of gas in it, a new transmission in it, it wasn’t that rusty, it had new tires, and we just put new seat covers in the night before. 

While, it was the next weekend my Mom and Dad went to go check it out in Altoona.    

They were gone all day.    

My Mom called us and said, “It was too expensive,” sounding all upset.    

When my Mom and Dad got home my brother and I didn’t believe them, so my brother went out to see.    

Then all excited my brother says, “There’s a new truck in our driveway!” 

I was surprised at what happened, but no one got hurt. I learned to always come prepared. This is important to me because when something like this happens like this, it is something