A huge fire
In this dream I was down in Cleveland, I think at some school-related function. There were a lot of people and it was very festive. Then something happened but I can't remember what, and we started hearing reports that there was a fire raging in another part of the city. Multiple fires, actually, and spreading. I joined some people with these very weird hoses with very complicated nozzles. We started wetting down everything, to prevent the fire from getting to the building we were in. I found a setting on mine that sprayed water out very far, and I was wetting down a lot of stuff when suddenly the water pressure dropped off and my hose was just a trickle.

The others' hoses were doing the same thing. We immediately thought something was up--that it had intentionally been turned off and there was something sinister going on. We decided to leave. We split up to get back to where our cars were. Mine was in a parking garage in the same building. I got nearly to my car and then remembered my mom was there, and called her cell phone. I told her where I was and she started heading to meet me.

I saw her headed toward the glass doors that led into the garage, but some security guy started to turn her away. He was going to make her take some other entrance because she didn't have a school id or some sort of pass or something. I ran up to the door and held it open and told her to ignore him and come in and yelled at the security guy that she was with me. Just as we got to the car I remembered that my friend's kids were in the childcare area, and that my friend was not there to pick them up. The fire would definitely have gotten to the building by the time my friend could get there, so we ran back in to find the girls.

The are where the kids were was labyrinthine. It was labeled in all sorts of strange ways and the kids were "sorted out" in very nonintuitive groups. We didn't know where to find the two sisters. A man who worked there helped us, and led us down some corridors. We got to an unmarked door and he opened it and gestured for us to go in. I had a bad feeling about it. Looking through the door I saw two toilet stalls. It was a bathroom? He said there was another door on the other side. I then noticed the tiny plaque next to the door that referred to a section number and said something about "naughty girls"... so this was some sort of punishment area? Or a ward for troublesome kids? I didn't feel that these girls probably belonged there, and suddenly realized that he intended to lock us in if we went through the door. I had him go first, and open the door on the other side. Then I called through for the girls without going through the door myself.

Then somehow I realized that my own daughter (huh?? Yeah somehow I acquired a daughter in the course of the dream) was in there and was going to call for her too, but I couldn't remember her name (not surprisingly, since she didn't exist until that moment!)

We finally did get out of there with the kids and made it back to the car. We were leaving, racing back to the house to save the cats before the fire reached there. We kept looking back over the city and seeing the multiple huge columns of smoke billowing out of buildings all across the city.

My mom said something about needing to go pick up Sonia, but my dream managed to sort out and then ignore that part, seeing how Sonia has been dead for over a decade.

I woke up then, but seriously considered trying to go back to sleep to see how the story ended. Except I was hungry and had to go to the bathroom, so I just got up.