When Karrie Higgins thought she smelled something hot, she didn’t expect to see flames coming out of her bedroom walk-in closet.
Higgins, her husband and daughter, of Davenport, are reeling from the Monday afternoon fire that left them with virtually nothing.
“It was horrible,” she said, fighting tears. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
Her daughter, Samantha, 12, came home sick from school and was lying on the couch while Higgins watched “The Dr. Phil Show.”
Her friends and family have long teased Higgins about her phrase, she "smells something hot." This time, it was all too real: She walked into the kitchen “And I saw flames all the way to the ceiling.”
“I screamed,” she said. She had her phone, but somewhere along the way lost track of it. Soon, she said firefighters were on the scene.