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Batteries are a different story. The electrolyte that acts as a catalyst for conductivity in the cell consists of an organic compound mixture that contains oxygen. When a cell overheats, the electrolyte gives off oxygen. If the heat level reaches the ignition point, that oxygen will actually feed the fire internally, even if you smother it. In the famous crash of Apple engineer Walter Huang in his Tesla in 2018, the resulting battery fire took many hours to extinguish.,He was so heavy, and although the seat he was in was reclined, it was not flat. I knew that in order to administer CPR, he had to be flat. I tried, but I could not budge him out of the car on my own. Although we were in the woods, we were near a street. I stood in the middle of the road, my hands up, still connected to 911 and implored, screamed for people to stop and help me.,I redialed 911, screaming, got out of the car behind the driver’s-side door and moved around the back of my truck to the rear passenger door nearest him. I did not feel a pulse but knew I needed to try CPR.,I didn’t see his bag-covered head at first; it had tipped back behind the seat as if asleep. A mask over his mouth connected to a tube under the bag, a bag you would use for a roasting turkey, and its string was pulled tight around his neck. I easily ripped it off and slapped his face, his head hanging back and his brown eyes half-opened while I screamed, “No! No! No!”,The mother-in-law smirks before she realizes she’s being watched. She then begins the emotional blackmailing, a roller coaster deftly performed to make everybody’s Christmas miserable. The elaborate show continues unabated with her hearing aid turned down so she can fully commit to her part. The racist uncle has moved on from blaming the influx of “Indians” ruining the traditional holidays to a sexist commentary on why Donald Trump and grabbing pussy was good for America.,Then another car stopped. And another. I remember one woman had a small child in the back seat, visible through the open window, and I shouted at her to stay in her car. I didn’t want her child to witness this.,The ambulance seemed to arrive quickly. They immediately pulled Matt’s body out of our car and onto the the uneven gravel of the parking lot. No one would let me near him. I can still feel their hands on me, holding me back.,He missed taking our youngest son to guitar lessons because he was sleeping while I had a story due, and now he’d made me drive into the middle of the woods to find and wake him.,When an internal combustion vehicle ignites for whatever reason, but most likely a fuel or oil leak onto a hot surface, extinguishing it is fairly straightforward. As we learned in science class, fire requires an ignition source, fuel, and oxygen. Starve the fire of either the fuel or oxygen and it goes out. When gasoline burns, you can smother it with water or foam and it goes out and generally stays out.,Child number four is bleeding. There’s real fear as yet another sibling threatens to call social services for endangering children. “Abuse” is the keyword that has become the unifying ideal behind this festive holiday. The wife spits venom as another husband seeks cover. He, too, wonders how he ended up in such a dysfunctional family and says aloud how his Jewish family is celebrating the birth of Christ. He should’ve taken his cue from me, a real cowardly bystander who’s decided that now would be the right time to take the garbage out.,Training initialized with completely random behavior for the first three days. Over the entire course of training, 4.9 million self-played games were generated, using 1,600 simulations for each Monte Carlo Search Tree. This corresponds to about 0.4 seconds of thinking time per move.,While the adults melt down, the remaining children have disassembled some furniture and have been slowly beating each other senseless. One slam to the face too many, and the onlookers are now witnessing a meltdown of epic proportions. The wailing can be heard several miles away as the wife, half-sloshed, has taken to screaming her disapproval at her mother in an attempt to make her listen. She still can’t hear a thing, though, and has continued her monologue on the state of the family like the royalty she perceives herself to be.,The 911 operator kept admonishing me to calm down, repeatedly asked for my location and scolded me for my hysteria. But I had no idea where we were, having taken an odd, circuitous route through the reservation.,But almost simultaneously, I saw an enormous brushed-aluminum cylinder tipped on its side. It took up most of the space between the two captain’s chairs in the second row. I would later learn it was a helium tank from a nearby party store — used to make balloons for children’s parties, not death.,But then I saw his left arm resting on the canister. The top was yellow and, along the bottom, gravity had pulled the blood down, turning the entire length of it a mottled red.