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Cruelty, he said "implies … something inhuman and barbarous, something more than the mere extinguishment of life."

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking over extinguishment efforts for a landfill fire in Moody, Alabama, federal officials announced Thursday.

“This constitutes torture, a possibly lingering death, and pain beyond that necessary for the mere extinguishment of death,” Judge Newman wrote.

The firefighters, who had been trained on how to respond to battery fires involving Tesla vehicles, “laid a 5 inch supply line into the scene so that we could keep a continual water stream on the fire to extinguish the fire and cool the batteries down to ensure complete extinguishment,” according to a statement from the Gladwyne Fire Department.

Local fire authorities in a now-deleted Facebook post said "a Tesla was on fire" and that they cooled "the batteries down to ensure complete extinguishment".