Yes, the word is Fire, as verified by several scholars at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
No Editor they did not. At least at the original language level. They played a transliteration game which left them looking like amateurs at best. It's very easy to show their error.
Here is the passage they tried to make say fire.
Zechariah 5:7 Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman :(אִשָּׁ֣ה)!
Now here is the word for fire.
2 Kings 1:14 Behold, there came fire(אֵשׁ֙) down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
I read Rood's account of that and he asked using the transliterated words which sound alike which is amateurish at best. He doesn't read Hebrew by his own account other than the transliteration and that is what he was looking at. Rood has been shown to be a fraud on multiple levels. Rood is a fraud and doesn't search for real truth. Follow his false teaching at your own peril.