I have used small tuna tins with a little bit of rubbing alcohol in a fireplace to help start a log when kindling was unavailable, that works quite well, this could be used as something to help start a fire if the wood is wet perhapse????
The problem about wood being wet is not getting it to burn, its about drying it out. The water in the wood requires so much heat to vaporize that when the caloric cost of the vaporization of the water is put in the balance the wood is not of value as fuel. If its just wet on the outside wipe it off.