After that, for days, thousands of tons of clay, sand, boron, and dolomite, were dropped by helicopter into the burning reactor to quell the fire, but also to try and prevent the spread of radiation.
'Well, master was reading in bed and fell asleep, so he must have knocked the candle over It set fire to the sheets, but luckily he managed to put the flames out with some water.
We have seen those flames circling this area, and really disappearing over the backside of this ridge here, likely dropping fire retardant onto some of the homes below.
But the good thing about the cyclone, which is what hurricanes are called in the south Pacific, is that it's helped put out more than 30 fires since last Friday.
There are still fires burning in Australia but recent rains in the nation's southeast has helped a great deal in stopping their spread or putting them out entirely.
And though firefighters worked throughout the night to try to stop it, you can see from this video while one museum official says very little will be left.
Such a distributed network, if connected to the right sensor system, could offer a future in which we are able to really put out fires on the worst fire days, and even in remote communities.
They're essentially fires that were never totally put out at the end of a fire season, and they burn underground threatening to come back from beneath the surface at any moment to wreak havoc once more.