When the narrator was seven years old, she was sleeping in an upstairs room when a fire started on the first floor of her home near the stove. The narrator mentions that the fire more than likely ignited from standing ash. The narrator’s father had haphazardly emptied ashes into a cardboard box, which caught on fire and quickly spread throughout the house. Unfortunately, there was only one staircase leading to the upstairs, which was blocked by flames. The baby sitter ended up calling emergency services and narrator's parents arrived with the fire trucks as the flames continued to grow. When Anna Avalon and her husband arrived on the scene, Anna removed her dress and proceeded to ascend a nearby elm tree that was close to the home. Anna then leapt from a bough onto the edge of the roof. Anna then tapped on the window, entered the upstairs room to save her daughter, and jumped down onto the firemen's net with her daughter in her arms.
Anna Avalon saves her seven-year-old from burning to death in a house fire. The little girl is trapped inside the house; it seems certain that she will die. But Anna comes to the rescue just in the nick of time. She manages to climb in through a window and grab her daughter before whisking her away to safety. But then, Anna was once a professional acrobat, and this isn't the first time that her advanced circus skills have had a positive impact on her daughter.
Years before, Anna was performing a blindfold trapeze act with her husband. After the tent in which they were performing was struck by lightning, Anna was forced to make a fateful split-second decision. Either she could save her husband and fall to her death, or she could save herself and her unborn baby. She chose the latter of the two options. Although Anna lost her baby, she survived, and while recuperating in the hospital she met the doctor who would become her husband and the narrator's father.
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