When fires still were extinguis h ing, between the explosions and remote effects of radioactivity lots of lives of defenseless were sacrificed for a huge sacrifice to technological power. I'll rewrite your sentence, trying to use your words as much as possible. While people still were extinguishing fires, with the explosions and radioactivity lots of lives of defenseless people were sacrificed to technological power.
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