I witnessed a similar thing happen at a house party when I was a kid. Once the fire started most people kinda froze and a couple people (including the house owner) panicked. My mom was the only one who seemed to "snap out of it" and grabbed the fire extinguisher from the kitchen to put the fire out.
Later in life I've been trained to point at specific people and give them specific tasks in an emergency. "YOU call 911! YOU get a first aid kit!" etc since that's supposed to be how you break the spell. But I'll never forget when i was twelve seeing about ten adults just freeze and all watch a fire creep its way up a curtain for twenty seconds.
I witnessed a similar thing happen at a house party when I was a kid. Once the fire started most people kinda froze and a couple people (including the house owner) panicked. My mom was the only one who seemed to "snap out of it" and grabbed the fire extinguisher from the kitchen to put the fire out.
Later in life I've been trained to point at specific people and give them specific tasks in an emergency. "YOU call 911! YOU get a first aid kit!" etc since that's supposed to be how you break the spell. But I'll never forget when i was twelve seeing about ten adults just freeze and all watch a fire creep its way up a curtain for twenty seconds.