I was cooking at a campfire and was standing in apropriate distance to the fire and suddenly the messages "my face is melting" "I am burning" appeared in a fast frequent und I lost life very fast, although I saw no fire animation that the char was burning.
Lateron I tried again and positioned my char at the farest position even possible to still be able to reach the fireplace - it happened again.
Later I tried a third time, and just took the cooking pot off the fire, ran some meters away from the fire to have no risk at all - I had the hot pot in hands took the hot cooked stuff out in my inventory and it started again, and I wasnt even near the fire, the char died... did the char catch fire because of hot meal in hot cooking pot?