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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Could you have extinguished the fire with the LN2? Not that I would have reacted any better in the moment.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Maybe… it was a big enough fire that I was worried about triggering the sprinklers / fire alarm so I wasn’t in any mood to experiment further.