Possible error or bad wording

[dianarz]

Clarification on 炎 vocab definition

I don’t know… the sentence uses it like “swallowed by flames” but it isn’t referring to the whole house fire as 炎. A house fire would probably be 火事. A forest fire would be 山火事. Does that distinction make sense? If you just refer to the entire fire as a noun, you probably wouldn’t say 炎 for that. Saying “that’s a house fire” is different from saying something was “swallowed by flames.” I do agree that it’s worded confusingly in the explanation, which was probably not written by the same person…