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"I know I did," I said. I said it very fast because I wanted to stop him before he started reading that out loud. But you couldn't stop him. He was hot as a firecracker."
Firecrackers are very sharp and active fireworks - so he was behaving in that way, quickly and sharply. Hot here has the connotation "excited/excitable".
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