Any other time, watching a man willingly and knowingly pour a cup of water onto a kitchen pan oil fire would be a great cause of concern. But on Wednesday it was for the advancement of knowledge when Jamie Novak, president and senior fire investigator for Novak Investigations Inc., splashed water on an oil fire inside a makeshift drywall room erected in the parking lot of the Council Bluffs Fire Department’s training tower. The reaction caused a rush of flames a dozen-feet tall to belch forth out of the shed like dragon’s fire, quite the sight for about 150 firefighters in attendance. Novak used a 10-foot pole for the display, thankfully. “Pour water on that fire while standing at the stove and you’re going to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns,” he told the crowd of Nebraska and Iowa investigators.