... deck were doing their job because it took both teams, above and below, to quench those fires. Toxic, it was. <rolling off Comfy Chair in fit of laughter> [...] Wot a marooooon! Don't know beans about science, he don't! "Magnesium fires cannot be extinguished by water. Magnesium continues to burn after oxygen is depleted. It than reacts with nitrogen from air to ...