Malaysia was to work out ways to combat the fires, Singapore was to monitor them and Indonesia to improve its fire-fighting capacity to put the fires out.

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The chemicals produce oxygen that makes it harder to put out the fires once they start.

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According to Popular Mechanics, the robots are only being used to put out fires involving Acetylene gas, which had previously simply been left to burn themselves out due to the risk of explosions.

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As firefighters in Eber worked into the night to put out blazes still smouldering beneath the rubble, men stood round fires to keep warm, while women, children and the elderly packed into cars covered with blankets.

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Fire trucks and ambulances raced through Baghdad to put out fires and collect the wounded.

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Scattered around the complex are the bronze vats that contained the water kept on hand to put out fires.

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And no, firing the firefighter is never the best way to put out and prevent fires.

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"I don't think we have ever had as intensive and difficult to put out fires this late in the breeding season, " she said.

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As I reported with my colleague, Nathan Vardi, back in March, Selig had two major, debt-fueled fires to put out on each coast, one with the New York Mets and the other with the Dodgers.

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Small fires were started at the Grade II-listed pub but put out without anyone being hurt.

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