The Fire Ghost appeared as the villain in the episode "The Tale of the Fire Ghost". He was portrayed by Tim Post.
Biography
a fire is like a wild animal. The fire lives, it dies, and it thinks. Because fire will do anything to survive and grow. It's the firefighter's job to stop
"I AM FIRE!"
it, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is dead. The spirit of the fire remains. The Fire Ghost follows the firefighters back to the station looking for revenge. It is possible, that in its own mind, they believe they are doing nothing wrong. Instead they may think they are only letting nature take its course.
A fire ghost, is an extremely dangerous ghost. It manipulates fire and lures people to stare right into the flame. Then before you know it, it is too late, and it is already summoned into the real world. There it can reak havoc and take its revenge. Firefighters face off against flames everyday, and they usually know better then to stare at the flame for too long.
In 1990, firefighters Dan Preston, and Jake Griffin were working hard to put out a fire. The fire was at an old woman's house. They rescued the old woman, then Jake went into to check for more people. Then it caused the roof to collapse taking Jake's life with him. Then Dan put out the fire, it quietly follow him back to the fire station. Then four the next four years, it caused the fire station a lot of misery. It caused power surges, windows to break by themselves and power failures.
Then in 1994, Dan Preston's children Jimmy and Roxy didn't believe the story about it at first. Then after Dan and the company had to go out to fire fight, his kids were left alone at the station. The Ghost of Jake Griffin appeared to protect the kids and he tried to warn them about it. However, a little later on Jimmy mistakenly stared into a flame which summoned it.
Then it started making a blazing inferno inside an equipment room closet. Then it shut out all of the power. Then it made a fire hose, wrap around Jimmy's legs and try to pull him right into the burning closet. But Jake Griffin chopped the house and freed him in time. Then it gave them a terrifying phone call. It told them that they were the sons of a murder and soon their time would be coming.
Then they escaped through a broke window, and bumped into a Police Officer. The Police Officer, did not believe their story and wanted to take a look around the fire station for himsellf. Then he insisted they waited inside the equipment closet so they wouldn't get lost as he continues to look around. When both children refused profusely to go inside, it turned into its real self threatening then.
Then they ran off scared screaming for help. Jake told them since they are the ones who summoned it, then they need to destroy it. So Jimmy taunted it to come out from the burning closet to come and get him. Then Roxy sneaked up from behind and sprayed it with a fire extinguisher. This seemed to work at first, but then it quickly came back. Then Jimmy noticed the sprinklers on the ceiling. Then as it closed in on him, he pretended to beg him not to turn into fire, claiming it was just too scary. It took Jimmy up on his taunt, then used its full power engulfing itself in blazing and scorching flames. The flames were so high, that it set off the emergency sprinklers. Then instantly it got doused and drenched, Then it vaporized into a pile of ash.
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- Tim Post also portrayed the Black Robed Figure.