A 54-year-old British mother describes how a holiday at a resort in the Dominican Republic rapidly turned into chaos after a fire broke out at the hotel where she was staying with her autistic son. She says she first noticed something was wrong when she “smelled burning” while lying near a pool. After turning toward the source, she reports seeing the hotel engulfed in flames. The account focuses on the sudden escalation of the blaze and the immediate fear of watching the property burn while with her son. The reports describe her experience during the incident but do not provide additional confirmed details about the cause of the fire, the extent of injuries, or the number of people affected. Overall, the sources present a similar sequence of events: detection of burning smells near the pool, a rapid shift from normal surroundings to visible flames, and the hotel being destroyed by the fire.