to smoulder
1. to burn with little smoke and no flame
2. to show signs of repressed anger or hatred
Link to present incidents:
Firefighters are battling a raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe in California that has destroyed more than 200 homes and forced about 1,000 people to leave.
In Alaska, fire crews were working to protect hundreds of homes in the Kenai Peninsula as a fire which broke out last week continued to smoulder.