Isn't there some sort of automatic countermeasures system that would take care of a fire? In datacenters they use special gas to extinguish fires without damaging the computers too badly.
I still think it's odd that there where two Iranians on board with fake passports, although it could be completely unrelated (traveling under the regime's radar?). What if they just stole it? Biggest heist ever?
There are fire extinguisher bottles for both cargo areas, forward and rear cargo compartments, but the E/E bay is separated from the fwd cargo hold, by a bulkhead wall, there is no fire extinguishing system in the E/E compartment other than a smoke elimination venturi valve type thing, which uses differential pressure to push the smoke out the valve...
And 60% of the time, it works every time!
Hey, hey, hey...if everything worked 100% every time, us engineers would be out of work.
