Car Fire

Around 2:00am I woke up to a beeping noise. Ryan got up and checked the alarm clock in the front room that Kherington likes to play with, but it wasn't going off so he jumped back in bed. I couldn't go back to sleep because I could still hear the beeping, so I got out of bed and was trying to figure out what to do. All of the sudden the curtains covering the window light up. They are dark curtains and were GLOWING orange. I was still a little groggy so I momentarily thought it was the lights outside flickering, but that didn't make sense.

I pulled open the curtains to check. Directly outside our window (15 feet max) was a car lit on fire. We didn't know what to do. I grabbed Kevin and Kherington (who were both sleeping in our room b/c we never moved them back between our stream of visitors) and Ryan ran outside to see where our car was parked. Then he went next door to the neighbors to see what to do. Just our luck, they were out of town.

By the time he got back outside the neighbors on the other side of the building had called the fire department. Ryan stayed and waited for the police while I took the kids and camped out in the backyard.

Here is how it looked right after the fire was put out and then the next day:

The police said the car was most likely set on fire because it had European Union or Nato plates...apparently they have had a couple incidents like this recently.