But in real fire situations, they use a mixture of fire-retarding foam and water that coats the runway or an airplane and smothers the fuel vapors to deprive them of the oxygen needed for burning.
In London, thanks to a mixture of fires, blitzes, ludicrous mismanagement and muddled planning, the medieval, Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and modern jostle together in higgledy-piggledy confusion.
In others a multi-aged stand develops which is a mixture of fire-damaged living and dead trees.
But a mixture of cheerleading and fire-breathing does not make for a coherent and credible worldview.
The huge, new billion-dollar international airport terminal lies a mile or so away, across construction sites, wasteland and rubbish tips, obscured now by a thick winter fog, a mixture of smoke from wood fires and pollution.
The blast of flame coming up from the wok is one of the chefs lighting a mixture of miso and lard on fire, before stirring in the various toppings.
The world was a mixture of cinnamon and wind and fire and lime and bone, and people needed to feed on these elements to endure life among them.
But the calm, undemonstrative Hughton – think Barry Fry, one of his predecessors at Small Heath, and imagine the polar opposite – has constructed an impressively cohesive team from a mixture of survivors from last summer's fire sale, Bosman signings and academy graduates.
As they chanted, police officers casually put on their gas masks and the operators of the tanklike vehicles aimed their big guns, which fire a mixture of water and tear gas, at the group.
The result was a mixture of AIP neurons that only fire for particular shapes and those that are activated by combinations of features representing grasp affordances.
