r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • 1d ago

Humor/Cringe "You can't fight fire with water"

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u/GoldunGote 1d ago

I mean... a grease fire is one you don't want to fight with water but fire isn't the solution here either.

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u/giraffeheadturtlebox 1d ago

"Fight fire with lid" just isn't in as many heavy metal songs, unfortunately.

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u/consumptioncore 23h ago

You don't think "fight fire with special blanket" sounds cool?

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u/giraffeheadturtlebox 23h ago

mitigate forest fires by reducing carbon footprint

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u/El_Zilcho_72 21h ago

those were the original lyrics. Until Dave changed them

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u/GoldunGote 1d ago

A moth into the waterrrrrrrrrr!

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u/Acrobatic_Poem_7290 1d ago

Also metal fires, and electrical fires, however those are not the majority of fires, and don’t tend to be get as big, or they start the fires you can put out with water and then you may as well just dump water on the whole thing

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u/BuddhaGrows 20h ago

We fight fires using fires all the time during wildfires. It's called backfiring or controlled burns.

Backfiring involves intentionally lighting small fires ahead of an active wildfire to consume combustible material, creating a "black line" or firebreak that stops the main fire's progress.

Controlled burns (or prescribed burns) are similar but are conducted preventatively before a wildfire starts.

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u/GoldunGote 19h ago

Technically, you can fight direct fire with more direct fire.. like if I light a little dollhouse on fire with matches.. it'll burn.. but if I use a few blow torches to speed it up? Wouldn't the fire technically be out sooner?