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148 points mstngl | 1 comments | 03 Nov 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.197s | source

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mtmail ◴[03 Nov 25 21:24 UTC] No.45804629[source]▶

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...

dewey ◴[03 Nov 25 21:48 UTC] No.45804846[source]▶

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

nchmy ◴[03 Nov 25 22:02 UTC] No.45804974[source]▶

Someone just recommended this to me the other day!

I must also recommend the recently-deceased legend Sebastiao Salgado's photos from Kuwait oil fires.

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slybot ◴[03 Nov 25 22:35 UTC] No.45805288[source]▶

I watched this movie on cinema a decade ago. Highly recommended.

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1. nchmy ◴[04 Nov 25 01:38 UTC] No.45806611[source]▶

It is, indeed, a tremendous documentary. He's one of my greatest inspirations.

The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)