There was my fire, burning merrily and I decided to make some stew. Dropped Maui on it, nothing happened. Tried again and was told this would be a good place to start a fire. In other words, it looked like the fire was burning but in reality it had gone out. I had to fetch the firewood, dry grass, and start the fire even though it looked like the fire was burning.

That does explain why so many of my villagers were getting sick.

That is a _bug_ that will be fixed in the update.