holy smokes!

definitely almost just burned the house down while trying to boil water!! We cooked steaks on the stove two nights ago, and I guess some of the sauce was left underneath the burner, because one minute I'm boiling water, the next there are giant flames flaring over the stove top! It didn't help the chaos when the smoke alarms started blaring and I couldn't figure out how to turn them off. Thank goodness I was able to put the fire out, but for a second there I was seriously freaked out thinking I was going to burn the whole building down!