Pyrophobia - fear of fire. After many years of therapy, medications, hypnosis, I still have it. I hate candles on birthday cakes, cannot even hold a lighter or book of matches without a full blown anxiety attack. I'm the crazy lady in a restaurant making dh blow out the little tea light at the table. Forth of July fireworks (okay from many miles away), but definately NO sparklers. Cannot live in a house with gas as pilot lights freak me out. I even freak out at the smell of something burning or sight of what appears to be smoke (cauterizing during my c-section, dry drilling at the dentist). I had to take days off work when the buildings fire alarm was being worked on. The first 2 times the alarm went off, I had a panic attack and passed out. I'm sure that one of these days I will be caught in a storm without power and die of hypothermia, sitting on a pile of firewood!