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Sorry ,but you are incorrect in your assumption that boiling brake fluid is the only thing that causes brakes to fade.Any brake can fade if it is overheated.
Ever notice the runaway truck ramps on long steep grades?Well they are made for semi truck trailer combos,no brake fluid there,just compressed air.
With light duty vehicles, overheated brakes are a double whammy. I was thinking of light duty tow vehicles, not big rigs with air brakes. City people overheat their brakes because they don't know how to drive on winding mountain roads. I've seen overheated brake pads so hot such that smoke was pouring from them. I've seen logging rigs with water-cooled brakes pulled off to the side with the driver pouring more water into them. I sure don't want to meet a loaded logging truck headed downhill on a narrow one-lane road while I am headed uphill. Nothing seems to deter the econobox crazies from diving in front of big rigs. When my son (a firefighter-paramedic) was at the Donner Summit Fire Station, he rescued plenty of people from wrecked cars and trucks, but mostly big rigs.