Does cold water extinguish fire faster than hot water?

 

       

 

 

 

            Cold water extinguishes fire faster. It’s easy availability, non-toxicity, high specific heat, low    boiling point, high latent heat of evaporation, high volume expansion, water to steam, makes it suitable for fire extinguishing.

        In case hot water is used, the heat absorbed from the source (fire), by a definite quantity, to reach its boiling point will be far lesser vis-a-vis the same quantity of cold water. However, the other parameters will remain the same. Colder the water, faster would be the extinction of the fire.