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mtmail • 11/03/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

How do you extinguish an oil-well fire? Enter the "Big Wind" with two jet engines on a tank chassis. "The water is moving at a maximum rate of 220 gallons of water a second," https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15138374/stilling-the...


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dewey • 11/03/2025

Tangentially related and recommended. Werner Herzog's film that also features longer sections on the fire fighting efforts on the oil fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness

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hakoda • 11/03/2025

You could also nuke it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtabulak_gas_field

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