Small amounts of water can spread gas fires but large amounts of water smothers and deprives it of the oxygen needed to react & burn. It's also really hard to

Small amounts of water can spread gas fires but large amounts of water smothers and deprives it of the oxygen needed to react & burn. It's also really hard to get liquid gas on its own to ignite -- it's the vapor that you have to worry about. This is why gas is atomized and combined with oxygen and compressed to burn in your vehicle.