"tire fire" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014 December 19, “NHL: Oilers lose AHL affiliate Oklahoma City Barons due to attendance issues”, in Sports Illustrated, retrieved 2017-02-10",
          "text": "As the tire fire that is the Edmonton Oilers rages on, their AHL affiliate is going through a worse ordeal.",
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          "ref": "2016 May 18, Kraemer_17, \"Listless Blue Jays Embarrassed for 2nd Night,\" BluebirdBanter.com (retrieved 10 Feb 2017)",
          "text": "The Reds pitching staff is a tire fire."
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          "ref": "2016 November 18, David White, “Pro Football: Who We Think Will Win in Week 11”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-02-10",
          "text": "The Browns . . . threw three quarterbacks into the tire fire against Baltimore last week.",
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          "ref": "2017 January 26, Jay Willis, “Donald Trump Is Making Shameless Equivocation the Dominant Form of Political Discourse”, in GQ, retrieved 2017-02-10",
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        "A disaster; a chaotic person, thing, or situation."
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        "(chiefly US, idiomatic, usually sports) A disaster; a chaotic person, thing, or situation."
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        {
          "word": "dumpster fire"
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