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Spraying kerosene onto the fire doesn't seem to be working too well.

What if we would try to take away its oxygen by covering it with dynamite?

I know you're joking, but dynamite is actually used to extinguish oil well fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well_fire#Extinguishing_th...

Ah yeah, I actually knew about this; there was a MacGyver episode about it! Weird that I remember this after 20 years...

Well, this network reset (pretty much, suicide as the link says) seems like covering everything with dynamite and starting over.

But the new thing will have fires appear anyway.