And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. Leviticus 10:1&2
And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father. Numbers 3:4
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. Numbers 16:32&35
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign. Numbers 26:10
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord. Numbers 26:61
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. II Kings 17:17
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. II Kings 21:6
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Psalms 97:3
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. Isaiah 43:2
And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein
And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. Ezekiel 20:47&48
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. Hosea 8:1&5&7&13&14
How great a matter a little fire kindleth. James 3:5
In the hot summer of 1666 the city of London was consumed by a great fire. 13,000 houses were destroyed. 89 churches were incinerated. 80% of the building stock was erased. No other city had burned like this since Roman times. Great Fire of London: The Untold Story, BBC 2010
The House of Commons appointed a committee to inquire into the causes of the disaster. ibid.
It was as they saw it an attack by foreign enemies. ibid.
Commercial rivalry had erupted into open warfare. ibid.
Suspicions about Dutch vengeance surfaced in the parliamentary inquiry. ibid.
Londoners were divided on the subject of immigration. ibid.
[Robert] Hubert’s confession was just what Londoners were expecting. ibid.
After four days of conflagration and violence the great Fire of London burnt itself out. It never reached the Tower because foreigners and their English neighbours made great personal sacrifices. But the battle to live in peace in London wasn’t over. ibid.
Hubert hadn’t even been in the city when the fire broke out. ibid.
Ten thousand houses all in one flame – the noise and crackling and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses and churches was like a hideous storm. London was but is no more. John Evelyn
From the beginning Londoners were convinced that this was a deliberate attack. And from the very beginning they wanted to know whodunnit. Adrian Tinniswood, author By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London
Fires were breaking out all over London in separate incidents. ibid.
Here by permission of Heaven, Hell broke loose on this protestant city from the malice of barbarous papists whose fire are not yet quenched. The Monument original inscription
Blanche, I’m telling you, your house is on fire again. Black Widow Murders 1993 starring Elizabeth Montgomery & David Clennon & John M Jackson & Grace Zabriskie & Bruce McGill & Mark Rolston & Guy Boyd & John Philbin et al, director Alan Metzger, him to her
Almost one hundred years ago on April 18th 1906 San Franciscans were awoken just before dawn by a massive earthquake. It lasted for fifty-five seconds killing hundreds of people and reducing huge areas of the city to rubble. After the quake came the fire-storms and further casualties. Now, Unsolved History will show that for decades the true magnitude of the disaster and its causes were covered up. Unsolved History: Great Quake Cover-Up, Discovery 2003
When the smoke cleared a city was gone. ibid.
It [photograph] also reveals some important clues about which types of buildings survived and which didn’t. Those built around skeletons of steel fared the best. ibid.
Canneto di Caronia: 23rd December 2003: ‘The electric fuse box here, the whole thing burned … We had the whole electrical system in the house changed. But things kept catching fire.’ The Unexplained Files, Discovery 2013
Fires began breaking out across the village, all of them for no apparent reason. ibid.
Mattresses and couches started to burst into flames. ibid.
A new set of unexplained phenomena: ‘JSB drives and computers were malfunctioning. Cars were locking and unlocking on their own. Gates were opening.’ ibid.
Massive explosive bursts of electromagnetic energy. ibid.
‘A military drill and possible experiments.’ ibid. freelance journalist
‘At night you can easily spot lights coming from the sky or the sea.’ ibid. resident
2004: A Sicilian fishing village experiences a series of shocking events: a fireball is observed shooting out of the ocean, and glowing UFOs are spotted moving across the horizon. But events rapidly descend into chaos: over the space of weeks electrical appliances spontaneously combust causing a series of mysterious house fires. The Italian government records more than 400 incidents in the village. Residents are ordered to evacuate. UFOs: The Untold Stories s1e6, National Geographic 2012
Canneto di Caronia, Sicily January 2004 4 a.m. and a local fisherman is working in the bay. Suddenly, a dazzling object bursts through the waters but in seconds the object disappears … This sighting isn’t the first mysterious event to happen in the village. ibid.
So what are these strange fireballs? ibid.
Even with no power supplied to Canneto the mysterious fires continue. ibid.
The wind backed sharply and hurled a torrent of sparks and whole burning splinters of wood across the Pike. The bright shower flew over the crowd to settle on the roofs of the quarter guard and of the magazines and store-houses behind it. Not for thirty seconds could Rodney hear under the other noises, the bang and rattle of rifle fire. John Masters, Nightrunners of Bengal p213
In the early hours of Sunday 2nd September 1666 fire broke out at a Pudding Lane bakery. David Dimbleby, Seven Ages of Britain, Age of Revolution, BBC 2010
Mike, I am not having fire-eaters in a paper warehouse. The Office US s2e22: Casino Night, Darryl
Saddam ordered the detonation of almost 700 oil wells. Fires of Kuwait, 1992
5,000,000 barrels a day going up in clouds of poisonous clouds and soot. If left alone the fires could burn for 100 years. ibid.