Remins me of a SAR operation where we found our victim sitting cold and clueless in a damp chilly forest. We suggested that a roaring campfire would be nice - answer: "It's too wet to light a fire" We took a carbide headlamp (normal equipment on a night search in those days) stacked some small stuff around it, and enjoyed welcome warmth in no time at all. We didn't even have to use boy scout starter fluid...

You can make starter fluid out of boy scouts?

I am sure that would be possible, but not socially acceptable in most quarters. The BS starter fluid to which I refer is white gasoline, which is, after all, recycled dinosaurs and similar life forms.

Purell hand sanitizer is my current fave when one must cheat in order to produce flame - much less violent,, but still effective.

That makes a lot of sense. Once you have the core going well, you can usually get a decent fire rolling.

I vaguely recall Colin Fletcher (RIP) doing that with an MSR stove after his gear got soaked in a coastal rainstorm, which coincidentally soaked all the kindling at hand.

Up here, gasoline used to help with firemaking is sometimes referred to as "hamburger helper."