I almost burned down my mum's kitchen too!I left the toast on and forgot all about it!
Lucky my cat kept meowing at me and looking at me funny. I was like "What is it?!". Then I turned around and seen there was smoke coming from the kitchen door. Fire was bursting out from the cooker so I turned it off and got a big bucket of water. Luckily it went out and my cat looked like she had a heart attack. xDD