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  • Red Adair, 89, Oil Well Firefighter, Dies

    08/08/2004 1:24:02 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 71 replies · 2,100+ views
    Associated Press | August 8, 2004
    HOUSTON - Paul N. "Red" Adair, a world-renowned oil well firefighter who revolutionized the science of capping exploding and burning wells, has died, his daughter said. He was 89. Adair, who boasted that none of his employees ever suffered a serious injury fighting the dangerous fires, died Saturday evening of natural causes at a Houston hospital, his daughter, Robyn Adair, told The Associated Press. Adair founded Red Adair Co. Inc. in 1959 and is credited with battling more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well fires, including the hundreds of wells left burning after the Iraqis fled Kuwait at...