

Lily and Ben were playing in the yard. They liked to pretend they were explorers in the jungle. They had a tent, a map, and a flashlight. They also had a big stick that they used as a fire.
"Look, Ben, I made a fire!" Lily said, holding the stick in the air. She smiled and waved it around.
"Be careful, Lily, don't burn yourself!" Ben said. He was a helpful brother. He always looked after Lily.
Lily nodded, but she did not listen. She wanted to make the fire bigger and brighter. She ran to the pile of leaves and threw the stick on it. The leaves caught fire and made a lot of smoke.
"Oh no, Lily, what did you do?" Ben shouted. He ran to the tent and grabbed the flashlight. He turned it on and pointed it at the fire. He hoped it would scare the fire away.
But the fire did not go away. It grew and grew. It reached the tent and burned it. It reached the map and burned it. It reached the flashlight and burned it.
Lily and Ben were scared. They cried and hugged each other. They did not know what to do.
Then they heard a siren. It was a fire truck. It came to the yard and sprayed water on the fire. The fire went away. The firemen came out and checked on Lily and Ben.
"Are you okay, kids?" one of them asked.
"Yes, we are okay, thank you," Ben said.
"Why did you start a fire?" another one asked.
"It was an accident, we were playing," Lily said.
"Playing with fire is very dangerous, you know. You could have hurt yourself or others. You should never do that again," the fireman said.
"We are sorry, we won't do that again," Lily and Ben said.
The firemen were nice. They gave Lily and Ben a hug and a sticker. They told them to be careful and to listen to their parents. They also told them to smile and be happy.
Lily and Ben smiled and thanked the firemen. They learned their lesson. They decided to play something else next time. Maybe they would pretend to be astronauts or pirates. But they would never play with fire again.
