Combustion is the process of combining a substance with oxygen, and putting out any fire must limit or completely eliminate the flow of oxygen from the atmosphere to the burning material.

If you put out some kind of fire, a plastic box, or a burning shed, water would envelop the burning material, wetting it, and simultaneously lowering the temperature of that material.

Yet gasoline isn't mixed with water, and due to its smaller mass it is not enveloped or covered by it – it elementary, according to physics, floats up and keeps on burning. Besides, water and gasoline begin to spread out even more, which increases the area of combustion.

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