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You need to get that fire out.'' Elsa Peretti Teardrop Earrings there were no injuries, the fire was the worst ever aboard an orbiting human spacecraft, according to the trade publication Aviation Week & Space Technology. According to Paloma's Zellige drop earrings account, the fire burned for 90 seconds before it was doused by the Mir crew with fire extinguishers. Heavy smoke from the blaze continued to fill the rambling space station for seven minutes. The blaze was triggered when a cosmonaut activated a candlelike canister of lithium perchlorate used as part of an oxygen generating device. Elsa Peretti Teardrop drop earrings combustible canisters were being used to augment the station's primary air supply system because there were a half-dozen people aboard the station, twice the norm. Because ground-based engineers are unable to examine the device, the precise cause of the fire has not been determined. But Paloma's Zellige earrings experts believe the canister may have been breached because it was stowed or handled improperly. Use of these canisters was to cease as three of the Mir crew departed early this month. However, their use resumed within days of the fire because both of the station's primary air generators, devices called ""Elektrons'' which use electricity to break wastewater into oxygen and hydrogen, have faltered. In his interview Thursday, Linenger said he and his two Russian hosts activate three of the canisters a day. Each time, a cosmonaut with a fire extinguisher is positioned nearby in the event fire erupts again.