Fire Fire!

We had an exciting evening. Tonight, I was cooking dinner. Our light in our oven hasn't worked for months. Brian and I were talking in the kitchen and all of a sudden I see this bright light coming from the stove. I was thinking it was our light coming on randomly but i was definitely wrong. Our stove was on fire!!! I flipped a little while Brian tried getting it out. As homeowners, we have never had anything major happen and have never made our house stocked with things that could be used in case of a fire. We were unsure of how to get the fire out. We turned the stove off and poured water on it, which we were told was a big no no!!! So then, we were told to put salt on the fire. We thought that worked. So we got ready to leave and go out to eat since our dinner had been ruined. Brian checked it one more time after we had gotten the girls in the car and THANK GOD HE DID!!! It was still on fire!!! So then we were told to try Baking Soda and Flour. Our friend came over and helped out with the situation and once they got it out, they took the whole oven and set it on the back deck! We went and got fastfood and went to Lowes where we learned that we could replace the coile and our stove would be fine! We are so blessed to know that the Lord was taking care of us tonight!