Fire symbolize

Explain the significane of the woman who sees flames. What is her role in the story? What might the fire symbolize?
The woman has quite the large role in Night, this is shown by having nearly an entire chapter detailing of her mental breakdown of screaming "Fire!" in the cattle car. Elie makes her claims of Fire into a symbol into not only the cruel ways the Jews were killed, but as a symbol of the Jew's life as well. Fire can be seem as an unpredictable and destroying entity, and that is exactly the sort of condition the Jews are in; an unpredictable terrible time of great loss.