When a tall mob dies while on fire, its body falls over, but the fire effect remains upright, so there is a pillar of fire without anything to support it until the body vanishes.
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This is a limitation of the fire graphic.
Eh, limitation or not, I don't think it would be out of the range of coding to simply make the fire graphic disappear the second the mob is dead rather than have it continue throughout the entity's dying animation.
Okay, reopening.
confirmed for 13w07a
Confirmed in 1.8-pre1

Confirmed in 1.8-pre2.

Confirmed in 1.8.
Confirmed for 15w49b.
Confirmed for 1.8.9 and 15w51b.
That's always been there and doesn't really effect Gameplay... I dont see why its an issue...