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"put out a fire" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
For example, "The fire department was able to quickly put out the fire before it spread."
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Not to put out a fire.
You don't put out a fire with gasoline.
They ordered several survivors to put out a fire caused by grenade blasts.
Attacking the Sunnis with Shiite fighters is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
"They called me to put out a fire, and we put it out," Maradona said.
"You put out a fire, it's a great feeling, very rewarding.
"But remember, it's as though he put out a fire that he had helped to light".
Mr Bowes, 68, was trying to put out a fire in a dustbin when he was punched to the ground.
IN HIS WORDS "Asking Cuomo and Paladino to end corruption is like asking an arsonist to put out a fire".
About 11 30 p.m., the volunteer Fire Department in Nantes put out a fire in the locomotive.
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Putting out a fire sounds like admitted defeat, but for me it has been about doing something braver.
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