A very common figurative way of suggesting or actually solving a series of crises in some context or other.
Jane as mother had a day of "putting out fires", as she resolved minor crisis' for different members of her family. Finding her son Tommy's lost pet bunny, salvaging daughter Katie's science project after it fell off the table and broke, picking-up hubby's dry cleaning and various other little dramas strewn in her path.
Of, or having to do with, a discussion of the 4.9 Cadillac engine family when installed in a Pontiac Fiero, usually begun by someone who has since been banned from a certain internet forum.
An extended bitch fit that you get used to when you have so many bfs it becomes a party. It is often spurred by haters who contact you from your past ,combined with staying up late at night and into the wee hours of the morning counseling your current friends on their relationship issues/status. These fiestas are known to lead to sleep deprevation and extreme abnormal anger. during these fiestas people will cross the street when passing by you outdoors. It is best to remain very far from restaurants, school ,church and other densly populated public places while enduring your fiesta.
"Dawg,loook at ol' girl over there. She look like she ready to murk a cat."
A mechanism that goes along with forest fires. Firestorms are large fires covering large areas.
Some area catches fire, then cold air comes in at ground level, creating high winds and fuel more flames. With this method, fires can reach up to 2000 degrees C.
It is not only by nature, but also made by man. A definite example is the nuclear bomb.
The fire that happened in Peshtigo, Wisconsin is a firestorm. Mayhaps one of the largest and deadliest fires in the U.S.