The Rabbis of the Talmud (Yoma 21b) teach that there are six kinds of fire in the world, and not all of them behave the way fire should.
The first is ordinary fire — it eats but does not drink. Throw wood on it and it consumes. Throw water on it and it dies. The second is fever — fire that drinks but does not eat. It burns up a person's liquids and strength without touching food. The third is the fire of Elijah, which eats and drinks both. When Elijah stood on Mount Carmel against the prophets of Baal, fire came down from heaven and, as Scripture records, licked up the water that was in the trench (1 Kings 18:38). That fire consumed the sacrifice and the water.
The fourth is the fire on the altar of the Beit Ha-Mikdash, which burns wet wood as easily as dry. The fifth is the fire of the angel Gabriel, which counteracts other fires — fire that extinguishes fire. The sixth is the fire of the Holy One Himself, which consumes fire, as the Master taught in Sanhedrin 38b.
The point of the list, preserved in the 1901 anthology Hebraic Literature, is not science. It is theology. The natural world has its rules, but the Torah describes fires that break those rules — prophets who call down rain-soaked flame, angels whose flame calms flame, and at the top, a divine fire so total it burns fire itself. The Rabbis are mapping the hierarchy of the unseen, one flame at a time.