Sorry I was not being clear, I realize that a metallic fire is different from a battery fire. Updated the comment to reflect that. The case we primarily discus

Sorry I was not being clear, I realize that a metallic fire is different from a battery fire. Updated the comment to reflect that. The case we primarily discussed was an EV fire on the car deck of a ro-ro ferry. And the conclusion from the paper is important: "Using water mist resulted in a temporarily increased production rate of HF but the application of water mist had no significant effect on the total amount of released HF." Essentially, our conclusion was don't touch it, if you have to then cool flammable things in the vicinity and as a last resort if things are about to spiral out of control put water on it.