Firefall.
Used in a sentence ... "It was a waterfall made of fire -- a firefall."
File this in the things you learn from PBS documentaries, but as summer fades, my thoughts returned to what I first heard of in the National Parks shows - a nightly tradition at Yosemite (at least until January 1968, four years before I was born) where the owners of a hotel on the precipice would systematically shower the park floor below with the leftover embers of the night's huge bonfire, creating a waterfall effect made of fire. It sounds beautiful (pics in the link below), but it was ultimately an unnatural part of America's natural preserve, so it was banned. [And -- the hotel had its last laugh a year later when it burned down.]
I guess there aren't really any other elements that can "fall" that way -- as a wind"fall" would just be a breeze and an earth"fall" is actually a landslide and, with all respect to those in Guatemala, a little deadly. So -- it is back to just water in our falls, the natural way!
WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE FIREFALL:
http://firefall.info/
THIS AND OTHER SONGS OF YOSEMITE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMr-EwjstNQ&feature=related
DEADLY LANDSLIDES IN GUATEMALA:
http://www.earthmagazine.org/earth/article/1ae-7d9-1-5
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