for actual combustion word...I would bet on some of Mark Graham's stuff about the universe..

for ordinary fire...how about when the old dun cow caught fire, burning ring of fire, fires of Calais..

for forest fires, timely, Craig Brandis of Portland wrote a great one about a brush fire...and one I heard on the radio..about a miner who became hunchbacked from digging and became a lumberjack, got made fun of until there was a fire and he saved the day by digging trenches...

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