I didn’t learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business. You don’t want to learn fire-eating from a book, but that’s how I started. I ...

Brant Mathews travels the world eating fire. But his journey began on the streets of Toronto in 1997. “I started as a guy on the street eating fire for pizza many years ago,” Mathews said on Friday.

The fire-extinguishing samurai who stopped the great fire was called "The Fire-Eating Bird." Matsunaga Gengo, once known as "The Fire-Eating Bird," was the best fire-fighting samurai in Edo. He had ...