I have found a bug where when dropping burning mobs down a pit, they have a chance of surviving no matter what size the pit is. I believe that they are taking fire damage right before fall damage so they don't take the fall damage.
MCPE-100400
Fire no fall damage
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We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-37680, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
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