Adam Burns learns he has become Inferno when he attempts to rescue an elderly woman whose has a grease fire in her kitchen. When he learns that his fire extinguisher is out of solution he attempts to smother the fire only to learn that everything flammable he touches bursts into flames. Later Adam Burns is in Darcy Walker's apartment on a date and they begin to kiss, as he pulls her close her dress does not burst into flames, although the throw pillow he touches does.