I watched it multiple times thinking, Is that my room? Like, just fully…in flames? And of course, it was my room—I knew it was—but it didn’t make sense. It was odd, almost disorienting.

“I heard a pop go off. By the time I came out of my room, the whole room was already on fire. It was like the flames were too big to put out. We just had to get everyone out of the hous ...