 Which, of course, only makes the problem worse. It's like when you're starting a campfire and you want to get it going and you've got the embers and so you start blowing on it because you want to make the fire get bigger. That's why you don't do that with a kitchen fire. Blowing only puts out a fire when the fire is contained on the wick of a birthday candle. If the flame is much bigger than that, you fuel the fire by giving it more air.