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Originally Posted by MrPeabody

I think when you add water to a fire that hot, you get an oxygen fire, because there's oxygen in water. I worked at a print shop once where we had a small table saw that we used to trim embossing dies made out of magnesium. Over time, the five gallon bucket that caught the shavings from the mag had filled up. A spark ignited it and we quickly had a white hot fire.

One of the idiots I worked with came running around the corner with a bucket of water to throw on it. I practically tackled him to keep him from throwing it on the fire, because I think it would have had results similar to what happened in the video.

We lifted the burning bucket by getting a mop handle under the wire handle and took it out to the parking lot and let it burn itself out. It made a hole in the asphalt.

Magnesium burns damn hot and is difficult to extinguish.