Fire overlay is translucent, but fire texture is not
Relates to MC-276496.
The bug
The screen overlay displayed when on fire is translucent, even though the texture for fire itself is not. This applies to all such textures; it is impossible to make the fire overlay appear translucent by use of a resource pack.
How to fix
Remove the hardcoded translucency, and add dedicated, separate translucent textures for the fire overlay.