How to use "fires" in a sentence

Sentences

On August 30th the weather was cool, the sky was black with smoke from domestic fires, and rain fell; rain and more rain

Gerry's gun fires three times into the evening light, and screams fill the creek, but there is no escape.

This world, the city with its wrist chips and simulators, was the only one they knew, but Gran often talked about life before the Oil Wars - how they used to walk freely in the forests, grow flowers and fruit, sing songs around fires on the beach, and travel to wonderful places

The fires had died down now, but the ruins of broken and burnt-out houses and blackened trees were clear in the cold light of the dawn