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Five fire departments from surrounding communities responded to the fire, using firefighting foam to contain the blaze; water cannot be used for lithium-based fires because of the reactive nature of lithium and water. More than half a million liters of water were needed to mitigate the fire after it spread beyond the source to adjoining property, and a nearby highway was temporarily shut down.

Although much of the lithium material that Toxco accepts is stored in earth-covered concrete bunkers, the fire started in a conventional building that is permitted and approved for lithium storage. The building is used to store both lithium-ion and primary lithium cell material; the latter is primarily used in military applications, and is considered to be much more volatile.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2009) — Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. Francis Albarède of the Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / ENS Lyon / Université Claude Bernard) suggests that water was not part of the Earth's initial inventory but stems from the turbulence caused in the outer Solar System by giant planets. Ice-covered asteroids thus reached the Earth around one hundred million years after the birth of the planets.