What does fired mean on a label?
One tea says pan-fired, another says finish-fired, a third says heavily fired. The word turns up at both ends of a tea's making and a label almost never says which end it means.
Short answer
Two different operations share it. Early on, fired means kill-green: the heat that stops oxidation and holds the leaf where the maker wanted it. English calls that firing, fixing or de-enzyming. Late on, fired means a finishing heat applied to tea that is already made, running from a few gentle hours that lift the aroma to a hard roast that rewrites it. The two sit at opposite ends of the process and answer different questions: the first decides what type of tea this is, the second is a layer added afterwards, sometimes by the merchant rather than the maker. If a label gives you the word alone, the tea type usually tells you which one is meant.