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> until [..] runs low on electrical energy How long will it take for that to happen in one of these semis? What if the fire needs to be extinguished before the

• bell-cot 2y ago
  > What if... You're pretty much SoL, because the "fire" is more like a pair of electrical cables that are shorting together. With seriously specialized heavy equipment (and probably an expendable robot or few), you might tap into the semi's electrical system, to drain off some of the electrical energy to a giant resistor. Or chop the battery out of the possibly-mangled semi's structure, and haul it away in a "burning battery containment" truck.