We understand the need for censoring...
But I agree, it could have been done much better. Something innocuous, that doesn't break the mood.
And this appears to be going somewhere very bizarre.
The impression from chapter 0 is that somehow he could have prevented this overwhelming disaster from occurring, if he had dealt with the girl slightly differently.
What, she's a super firestarter, ala Carrie on drugs? That somehow, her being ticked off when she used the lighter caused all the fires to happen?