IPod AC charger not compatible with iPhone? Overheating!

I was charging my iPhone with an old AC adapter that uses the firewire cable from my iPod back when they shipped with them, and I don't know what was going on, but the iPhone became scorching hot to the touch. I checked the AC adapter specs, and they are definitely different than the iPhone AC adapter.
Does anyone know definitively whether or not old AC chargers are unsafe? Seems like there should be a warning or something. If this wasn't the cause of the heat, I need to figure out what else is wrong, because I can't imagine the temperature was within normal operating limits.

There isn't a version that will work with iOS previous to 5, according to this Apple article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2578?viewlocale=en_US

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