Fire

The Sims
Fires can happen in a few different situations. They are:


 * A Sim with little or no Cooking skill decides to cook a meal and messes up the oven, setting it ablaze.


 * A Sim, probably trying to create a romantic and cosy atmosphere, lights the fireplace. If there are tables or other furniture too close to the fireplace, sparks can jump out and cause them to catch fire. Before the Sim knows it, the entire living room is in flames.


 * A foolish Sim, attempting to raise their Fun bar, sets off the rocket set. A rocket hits them and they catch fire.


 * A player chooses the "Sands of the Desert" option when talking to a Genie.


 * If the Enchant spell backfires, whatever the Sim was trying to enchant will catch fire.


 * If a Sim lights a fireplace and there is a Barbecue grill nearby (it is filled with gasoline).

If the room has a fire alarm, the fire department will rush over and put out any fires. If the house doesn't have a fire alarm, it is up to your Sims to take action, either by calling the fire department or by selecting the fire and choosing 'Extinguish'. There is no way to buy a fire alarm while the fire is there as build mode and buy mode are disabled. The longer a sim is in proximity to the fire (and because all sims are autonomously brought to the fire to instigate the 'panic' action they will be in) the greater the chance is that they will catch fire. Even if sims escape unscathed from a fire hygiene and fun motives will seriously drop in proximity to the fire.

It is therefore better to call a fireman because your sim has a bigger chance of dying if he or she tries to extinguish the fire him/herself. Always have a fire alarm in a kitchen, near a fireplace or anywhere else you think there can be a fire.

If Makin' Magic is installed, one of the Crystal Clear Ability Rocks can give magical Sims the ability to summon a cloud that will quickly extinguish a fire. This may save the burning object, but the Sim may be fined if non-magical Sims see it happen.

The Sims 2

 * The main way to start a fire is through a cooking accident. A sim is more likely to start a fire if he is cooking a meal at the limits of his cooking skill. Even a sim with 10 Cooking points may start a fire if he is cooking a very difficult meal like Lobster Thermidor.
 * Sims can also start a fire when they cook a meal in the oven, on top of the stove, or in a microwave, and do not take it out on time.
 * Fire can be started by the flame jets that come with Nightlife. A Sim may catch fire while roasting marshmallows over one. The bonfire from University and any fireplace can also cause fires.


 * A Sim can also set a fire by switching on the Christmas tree that comes with The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff. If it is left on too long, a fire will start.
 * In Apartment Life, an Evil Witch can use the Inflammo spell to create fires.
 * Note that even if a Sim can teleport, doing so will not get fire off them. In The Sims 2, Death by fire has its own ghost type.
 * With Seasons, a lightning storm can create a fire when lightning strikes an outdoor object, usually a tree. This fire is often put out by the rain afterward, though.
 * Electrical objects can catch on fire after a failed repair attempt.
 * Extinguishing Fire
 * A fire alarm will automatically call the fire department; unless the firemen cannot get to the fire, they will extinguish the flames.
 * A sim can call the fire department using either a house phone or a cell phone.
 * An adult sim who is not on fire can Extinguish a fire.
 * In University are sprinklers that will immediately extinguish a fire, cooking or lighter induced, although it leaves a watery mess behind.
 * A Good Witch can use the Exflammo spell to extinguish fires.
 * In Open for Business, you can construct Hydro Bots to put out fires as well.
 * Fires caused by lightning are often extinguished by the rain.

Player Stories

 * In my game, Buck Grunt was adopted by Bella Goth. When Buck went to college, Bella started a fire. She would've died but lucily she died of old age.


 * Fire is deadly! In my game fire has been responsible for most of my sim deaths: [the only non-fire death was when I was just learning how to play the game and Antonio Monty starved to death]These Sims were taken by fire, deliberately and on accident: Don Lothario, Olive Specter, Alexander Goth, Nervous Subject, Lazlo Curious, Nina Caliente, Chloe Singles


 * I already finished a new family, and I hired maid, and at noon a fire started! I forget to put an alarm and my maid didn't panic, but just kept sweeping, and all of my characters died!


 * In the original game, (I was around 10) I avoided things that could cause a fire. When there was a fire, I quit the game without saving. Now in the Sims 2, I'm only careful about the kitchen.


 * Fire is the best way to murder someone on sims, just lead a sim to a fire place and leave him/her there and put barbecues or some chairs around them and next to the fire and they will burn to death.


 * In the first Sims game(I was 4 or 5), I had put a camp fire. At first, I didn't know what it was, so I used it. PART OF MY FREAKING HOUSE CAUGHT FIRE! I had no phone, and a fire alarm in the kitchen. I accedentally saved. I went to that family again, and the grandma died. I didn't save, so I moved the family out.


 * In 2007 I think, I was playing Sims 2 when a fire suddenly broke out. I was scared, and so was my niece, so we called the fire department, but my girlfriend died in the fire. Thankfully, everyone else was safe. Now, I have fire sniffers in every room.


 * When I first got the Sims(I was like 6), I used to play the Goths. Once, I let Bella cook. And She caught fire to herself. I got really scared(I'm a sensitive child >:) and got scared to play the Sims XD. But now I use cheats to give them cooking skills <:

stove but I saw a ghost and I never played it again until I got the sims 2.
 * When I got the first sims I played the goths and bella died by fire so next time I took away the


 * One of my Sims 2 families consisted of two sisters. One was a werewolf and one was a vampire. One day it was storming and one of my trees outside got hit by lightning and started on fire. All the neighbors on my lot and my werewolf sim were gathering around it and yelling and I could not get my werewolf sim to leave the fire long enough to go and call the fire department. Meanwhile, my vampire sim had gotten out of her coffin and was screaming at the fire too - but it was the middle of the day so she was in the sunlight. All my neighbors and my werewolf caught on fire and died but my vampire sim pleaded with the grim reaper and saved my werewolf - then she exploded from the sun. My werewolf managed to somehow catch on fire again and, since there was no one left alive, she died again. So the fire managed to kill all my sims and about three or four of my neighbors. Needless to say I didn't save that.


 * a good way to avoid fire in the sims 2 is to buy the buffet.


 * In The Sims 2 I was hosting a party and I was making a Turkey, some guy talked to me so I got distracted. The oven started burning and I didn't have a fire alarm 5, count 'em 5 flammable objects were around to oven and it massively killed 9, yeah that's right 9 PEOPLE! I was like "Oh my God!" then I thought "I'm a murderer!" So long story short, I didn't save I hosted a GREAT party and everything was good after that! =P


 * When first bought The Sims deluxe edition i found the rocket set item and i was like " OH MY GOD!!" so i thought it was supposed to placed in the house so i put it in there, i had a family of 4: mother,father,son and a dog and they had a 2-story house, so i got the son to launch the rocket, it exploded in the living room and started a major fire! so i was like " NOOOO!!!" so the kid and the dog ran upstairs so i deleted the stairs, the downstairs was just ashes and the body's of the parents was left, some fire got upstairs and burnt out the bathroom, the social worker came when the kid was one of the kids over in Africa and she used her powers and got the child, i was like "what....happened....????" but of course i never saved!


 * there was this machine that you could roast marshmellows and it made a fire and 2 of my sims got on fire at univercity and they were Kyne and Teena and they both did not die Kyne got out of the fire and saved teena and leo called the fire department that saved Kyne