I used to live in a tiny town with a huge pile of tires out in a lot next to the airstrip. It caught fire and burned all month. They couldn't extinguish the fl

I used to live in a tiny town with a huge pile of tires out in a lot next to the airstrip. It caught fire and burned all month. They couldn't extinguish the flames, and we lived with heavy black smoke asphalt air for weeks. You could pile dirt on it until the fire ran out of oxygen, if we had autonomous earth moving equipment that could take the intense heat. Or you might try to shock it to smother it, but at scale that would have to be an air-fuel blast that would have wiped out the whole village. The town was especially good at blowing stuff up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetic_Materials_Research_and_Testing_Center https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetic_Materials_Research...