Origins: Cue Flames

A muted thud, a sudden roar.
He turned, only having time to widen his eyes, open his mouth as a wall of flames engulfed him. 
The terror was instant, the pain long lasting, and death.....death did not come. 

He stirred, arms stiffly moving up to his eyes, rubbing at the gunk covering them until he could blink, he could see. 
See the face of a shocked fire fighter in front of him.
"You're...you're..." the man stuttered.

He glanced down, realizing he was still standing, covered in a thick layer of soot, almost like someone had caked mud all over him and turned him into a plaster statue. 

The fire.
The flames.

It flicked through his thoughts as he slowly nodded, hands moving to rub at his mouth. 
So he was...
He...somehow was...alive.