You can't fight an impending fire with a thoughtfully written manual on how to extinguish flames.
"Can be used for fires, farming and everything else". But modern firefighters extinguish flames with more than just water.
Soldiers watched from behind the iron fence of the Egyptian Museum, occasionally shooting their water cannons, but only to extinguish flames ignited by the firebombs.
Some of the people leaving the camp set tents and shelters ablaze, but riot police and fire crews moved quickly to extinguish flames.
France's interior minister said more than 500 firefighters had been mobilized Monday to help extinguish flames that had filled the sky with smoke.
Shocked residents can be heard screaming and shouting, while others run towards the scene with buckets of water to extinguish flames.
Firefighters continued to extinguish flames and hot spots as of 7 30 a.m.
By 1940, firefighters known as smokejumpers would parachute out of airplanes to extinguish flames in remote locations.
Hides were hung in an overlapping manner so that any water would run down the whole structure to extinguish flames.
