The Stricken Stream flows from its source at the waterfall on Mount Fraught, through the Mortmain Mountains, and into the Hinterlands. It is home to the Stricken Salmon. In The Slippery Slope, the Baudelaire discovered that the stream had been significantly polluted by ash and debris from the fire at the V.F.D. headquarters. While the V.F.D. headquarters was being burned down, a brave volunteer tossed the sugar bowl out the window and it landed in the stricken stream. The ash had turned the stream into a sort of black sludge and made the salmon ill.