1) The narrator was playing football with their friend Kevin in the afternoon when Kevin pointed out smoke coming from a top floor window of their apartment building. 2) The narrator alerted their friends and called their mother, who immediately phoned emergency services. While the mother called for help, the father continued watching TV. 3) The fire brigade arrived quickly and firefighters rushed into the building, managing to put out the fire and rescue a man trying to climb out onto the roof within a few minutes.