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As one descends the underworld’s nine circles, they must be careful not to let ne’er-do-wells and scoundrels extinguish their flame.

The blaze is challenging to combat as crews cannot use water to extinguish lithium ion battery fires.

The cause of the fire - which took 27 hours to extinguish - is still being investigated.

There was black smoke in the cabin, the image showed, as at least one passenger was seen trying to extinguish the blaze.

The facility housed around 100,000 lithium-ion batteries, which are exceptionally dangerous when ignited because they burn extremely hot and cannot be extinguished with water, which can trigger a violent chemical reaction.