LOS ANGELES: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's romantic 2009 St. Valentine's Day (14Feb) plans almost ended in disaster when a fire broke out at their home.

The singer reveals the couple had just settled down for an evening alone when a fire broke out in their master bedroom.

Carey tells Paper magazine, "I took control. 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."

Carey didn't reveal what started the blaze