もえる
to burn, to get fired up
Fire doing what fire does, and the whole hillside is at it. Somebody left a mower もえる out in the middle of that: もえる.
焼く やく is you burning or grilling something. 燃える is a thing being on fire, and it does getting fired up as well.
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