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DARPA gets behind bid to put flame-quelling electric wands in the hands of firefighters

PETER Venkman trapped ghosts with it.

Wikus van de Merwe (unwillingly) exploded a prawn with it.

And that's perfectly acceptable, because every kid who's been caught probing a socket with a fork learns the hard way that Electricity Is Dangerous.

But can you fight fire with it?

Yes, say a group of researchers from Harvard University.

In fact, it's actually a concept that's been kicking around for some 200 years that, for no particular reason, simply hasn't been developed.

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