Mariah Carey’s been setting the stage on fire with her booming vocals and power ballads for more than 20 years, but on Monday the Grammy-winning singer was forced to put out an actual fire. Mariah took to her Twitter account to tell fans about an electrical blaze that broke out under her feet as she was waiting to take the stage at a concert in Egypt.
“In Egypt getting ready to go on stage and suddenly there was a surge of power and an electrical fire started under my feet!” she Tweeted. “Naturally, my emergency instincts kicked in and I put out the flames w/a towel.”
This is the second time in a year that Mariah has had a close encounter with flames. In 2009, the crooner was celebrating Valentine’s Day with hubby Nick Cannon when a fire broke out in the couple’s master bedroom.
“He (Nick) had given me an enormous amount of roses, so I picked up the vase and poured out the roses, and went back and forth from the bathroom putting out the flames with water… I’m good in a crisis,” she said at the time.