My baby was sleeping peacefully in the crib, not moving at all. He had barely woken up during the night and hadn’t cried, so at first I thought it was just my imagination.

But when I came closer, my heart nearly stopped. The wall next to the crib was black, covered with soot, and the outlet was charred.

I froze. That could only mean one thing: there really had been a fire in the nursery. But how? Why was everything already extinguished? And who put it out? No smell of smoke during the night, no alarm, nothing…