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As a lithium fire can react intensely with water, firefighters had to use dry sand to extinguish the blaze, which took several hours to get under control.

On the downside for financial markets, the Fed’s chair said inflation is taking longer than expected to get under control.

First, understand the irony: we left the EU on a promise that immigration would get under control because the UK could say exactly who got their passport stamped at our borders.

The fire took about an hour to get under control.

The fire took about an hour to get under control.