You just have to understand that fire is HUNGRY.
Fire loves oxygen and fuel, and hates whatever doesn't have enough of it to catch immediately. Some materials are too "cool" for fire (usually because they have more water content) and some materials do not combine well with oxygen. The melty shit is determined by how quickly fire runs from place to place.
Fire is happiest when eating. When it can eat alot, it stays. When it can't, it moves on quickly.
That's how it works.
I'm a Southerner. "Dried pine" is still loaded with resin, but it's flammable as can be - it's pretty much turpentine (and smells like it).
We cut down pine trees in the spring, leaving about a 3 foot stump. In the middle of summer you just hack a whole shitload of small shards out of the center of the stump where the resin is collected. You can light that wood with a bic lighter in about 2 seconds.
They short all the companies they own, and they'd damn sure do it.
When you have their kind of influence and wealth, you never lose playing the stock market.