Grilling Adventure

Before I went to the States I was making dinner on the grill.  I was very organized and had marinaded salmon for the girls and I to eat and then one piece of salmon that I could throw on the grill for Jason when he got home from work.  I made salad with home made dressing and rice to go with the salmon.  I prepared everything put the salmon on the grill and flipped it over.  I went inside to prepare all the plates and then went back out to the grill to take the salmon off.  I started to lift the lid and to my surprised flames came shooting out everywhere!  I was quite startled and dropped the lid back on the grill.  I thought that I must have imagined all the flames so I tried to open the grill more cautiously but no, I had not imagined all the flames.  The enire inside of the grill was on fire.  I turned the gas off hoping this would stop the flame but it did not.  I then noticed that the flame was coming from the grease catcher under the grill and realized that the flame was not going to go out on its on since it was a grease fire and it had an entire pan of grease to burn from.  I decided to use the long grill spatula to tap down the fire and luckily that worked..  Once I had that flame out I cautiously, using the spatula, lifted the lid of the grill.  There were still spots of flame inside the grill so I poured baking soda on all the flame areas and successfully put out the fire.  While I was proud of myself for fixing the problem I was very angry becuase now I had no salmon for myself and the girls to eat for dinner.  It was already late and getting close to bedtime so I fed the girls salad and rice for dinner which they didn't seem to mind.  I however, was very angry and didn't even feel like eating at this point so I got the kids ready for bed and waited for Jason to come home to figure out dinner.  Since we couldn't sue the grill until we cleaned it out Jason decided to just cook the salmon in the oven.  After preheating the oven however, we lost power.  When the lights went out Jason gave up on the salmon also.  It was a good thing we had leftovers in the fridge!