well grassy that may be very well true however, there is no point to go any further with this unless i can get 1 of these 5 sounds to play at random whenever a player dies and the death must be by fire. trust me if you help me get this to work you will be extremely impressed with my map and its overall effect.

Make a trigger_hurt
Give it a damage value of over 100 (this kills the player instantly.
Give it a targetname
Make a script so that when the trigger_hurt is triggered, the sound gets played once.

Read some of the tutorials ("Moving Things!") on how to do this all

This is some code from my fx.gsc file. Can someone explain to me why I need the second set of parenthesis?
maps\mp\_fx::loopfx("halftrack_fire", (0, -736, -16), 1, (0, -736, 0));

The second pair of coordinates is used to point the effect.

subtract the first from the second and you'll get the direction

maps\mp\_fx::loopfx("halftrack_fire", (0, -736, -16), 1, (0, -736, 0)

x: 0 - 0 = 0
y -736 - -736 = 0
z 0 - -16 = 16

so the direction is 0,0,16.. or... up.