Adair, Red |
Born 18 June
1915 (Houston, Texas, USA)
Died 7 August 2004 (Houston, Texas, USA)
Age at death: 89 (read death notice) |
Fighter of oil well fires, whose fame
spread after he extinguished a blaze that had been burning
for 6 months
in the Sahara desert. His other assignments included the
Piper Alpha
platform disaster and Kuwait, after the retreating Iraqi
army set
dozens of oil wells ablaze there. |
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