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Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that
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Actually water is used only for cooling the surroundings. The fire is extinguished by the air current, the same principle as you blow a candle, but at a different scale, it would work without water, but the heat could reignite the gas.
Water is piped from local reservoirs. This was a problem in Kuwait, where oil wells are in the desert. The advantage of this design was it uses much less water than other fire engines.