Talking of fire, in high school me and a bunch of buddies used to sit at the back of the science room and pour meths over the desk and set it alight. Our teacher was a complete doofus, very slow, very dumb even for a science teacher. He came out of the prep room and said in his slow doofus voice "somethings burning".
Well Duh!
I also had an Indian science teacher that managed to set his turban alight bending over the bunsen burner.