Verdant Flammable Device

Verdant Flammable Device
General Information
Type	Signaling device
Purpose	Draws attention to areas
Location	V.F.D. Headquarters
Behind the Scenes
Appearances	The Slippery Slope
Adaptation Appearances	Netflix Adaptation: The Slippery Slope: Part One, The Slippery Slope: Part Two

See V.F.D. (disambiguation) for other uses.

“	It isn't a cigarette, it's a signaling device. That baby just broadcast our location to every V.F.D. agent for a hundred miles.	”
	— The Woman with Hair but No Beard in "The Slippery Slope: Part Two"

Verdant Flammable Devices are signaling devices used by volunteers on the fire-fighting side of V.F.D., and are an obvious reference to the initials "V.F.D.". They are described as small green tubes. These are first mentioned in The Slippery Slope. When lit, they give off a dark green smoke and smell like burning vegetables. Quigley Quagmire found them in the V.F.D. headquarters and showed Violet and Klaus how to use them. The Man With a Beard But No Hair also found one and gave it to Esmé Squalor, thinking it was a cigarette. Later, Sunny uses the same "cigarette" to cook lox for Count Olaf's troupe and also to signal to her siblings.

Appearances

Books
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books)
1. The Bad Beginning (1999):	Absent	7. The Vile Village (2001):	Absent
2. The Reptile Room (1999):	Absent	8. The Hostile Hospital (2001):	Absent
3. The Wide Window (2000):	Absent	9. The Carnivorous Carnival (2002):	Absent
4. The Miserable Mill (2000):	Absent	10. The Slippery Slope (2003):	Debut
5. The Austere Academy (2000):	Absent	11. The Grim Grotto (2004):	Absent
6. The Ersatz Elevator (2001):	Absent	12. The Penultimate Peril (2005):	Absent
13. The End (2006):		Absent
All the Wrong Questions
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012):	Absent	Shouldn't You Be in School? (2014):	Absent
When Did You See Her Last? (2013):	Absent	Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (2015):	Absent
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (2014):		Absent
Snicketverse
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002):		Absent
The Dismal Dinner (2004):		Absent
The Beatrice Letters (2006):		Absent
29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (2014):		Absent
The Hero of the Story (2017):		Absent
Poison for Breakfast (2021):		Absent
Other Snicket Books
The Baby in the Manger (2002):		Absent
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (2007):		Absent
The Lump of Coal (2008):		Absent
The Composer Is Dead (2009):		Absent
13 Words (2010):		Absent
The Dark (2013):		Absent
Goldfish Ghost (2017):		Absent