<human>: Can you give me a shortened version of the text?

So last weekend my wife and I were helping my mother-in-law prepare for a dinner party at her house.  I was doing mostly prep work, like cutting vegetables and fruit.  The three of us were all sitting in the dining room chatting away about the party, working on our own prep.  I was switching over to cutting up come chicken so I went back into the kitchen to wash off the knife I was using.

Standing in front of the sink scrubbing the knife, I catch something out of the corner of my eye.  I look to my left at the stove which had a pot full of boiling water with steam coming out of it.  I walk over to see how much water is in there, when I realize that instead of water there is a small layer of oil on the bottom and the "steam" was smoke billowing out.  Suddenly, the whole pot bursts into flames about a foot high!  I yell "FIRE!" and for my wife and mother-in-law to call 911 for the fire department (since I didn't have my cell phone on me).  I'm scrambling around the kitchen to find a lid or something to cover the pot.  I finally find a solid metal lid when my wife runs in like fifteen seconds later with a pitcher of water and heads right for the stove.

As soon as I saw that, this is exactly what flashed in front of my eyes:  

Imagining the entire house being engulfed in flames, I yell at her to not get that anywhere near the stove with that and fly over with the lid.  I immediately cover the pot to extinguish the flames.  Luckily the flames had not gotten too high (maybe about a foot and half by now) and it worked like a charm.  We all breathed a huge sigh of relief.
<bot>: pot had a grease fire in kitchen, using water would mean a HUGE FUCKING FIREBALL a la Mythbusters, so used lid instead