Fires should be handled better by NPCs

So right now I was playing a child who went over to someone's house, and a fire started. The people who lived there are evidently too stupid to extinguish it, and I can't leave the lot during a fire, can't talk to anyone, can't use the phone to do anything remotely useful, can't even fish for some stupid reason. So all I can do is stand and watch everything burn. Already been there 16 hours now, starving, peed self, going to miss school...seriously, if you aren't going to implement firemen, at least make the idiot npc sims put the fire out.