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Firstly, electricity isn't fire, so they don't need to worry.
Secondly, if you're childish enough to consider sparks as a kind of fire, then turning stuff *off* is generally what causes sparks, not turning stuff on.
Given the hypocrisy involved in getting someone else to press elevator buttons, surely their rabbi can advise that all they need to do is get a gentile to go into the hallway ahead of them, so by the time they enter it they are merely allowing the system to keep running.
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