Kitchen fire anxiety
I’m honestly still really scared and need to get this off my chest. I was cooking a chicken patty in oil, and I guess the oil got way too hot. When I flipped the patty, the oil suddenly caught fire and the flames shot really high, all the way up toward the range hood above my stove. The flames actually reached the vent opening underneath the hood, the part that sucks the air in above the burners. It looked absolutely massive and happened so fast that I completely panicked.
I didn’t have a fire extinguisher, which made me even more terrified. I remember seeing huge flames reaching toward the vent and thinking, oh my God, I’m going to burn my house down*.* I felt like I was going to faint i was having a severe anxiety attack.
The fire is out now it died out quickly and everything seems okay, but I’m still extremely shaken up. I keep replaying it in my head, the sight it still engraved in my brain and i keep thinking about how much worse it could have been. I think I’m mostly posting this because I need someone to tell me that it’s normal to still feel this scared afterward. i genuinely hate myself for what i possibly could have done to my home :(