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> Do you know what happens when you put water on an oil fire

When the water is coming out of the ceiling at 25 gpm, you get a lot of slightly oily water and no fire.

To answer your earlier question, the purpose of sprinklers in a house is to save my pets' lives if a fire starts while I'm away.