What this sounds like is just chance and probability passing as premonitions. Just because one thinks one 'sees' something in one's mind's eye it does not immediately follow that when the event occurs one foresaw it.
The probability of someone's sleeve catching fire is 50/50, same with everything else. If you saw what he'd be wearing on that day and so forth, maybe there could be some credence to the claim.
Déjà vu is merely another form of selective memory... we may already have been in a similar place however, due to memory loss or whatever, our brain is duped into believing such events occurred before that moment in time, when they really did not. Déjà entendu is the illusion that a certain conversation was held and the other person said the same exact words, albeit the exact details being uncertain and perhaps imagined.
Making observations.
And this for further reading: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/sep/psychology-of-deja-vu
