Red Adair - Wikipedia
WEBFirefighter. Paul Neal " Red " Adair (June 18, 1915 – August 7, 2004) [3][4] was an American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore.
Red Adair, oil-well firefighter, dies at 89 - NBC News
WEBAug 8, 2004 · Paul N. “Red” Adair, an oil-well firefighter who revolutionized the science of capping exploding and burning wells, has died, his daughter said. Adair, whose company was credited with fighting...
Red Adair to the Rescue - ASME
WEBDec 12, 2012 · Red Adair was the 20th century's greatest—and by far the most famous—fighter of oil well fires. Adair's father worked as a blacksmith, but the family was poor. At the height of the Depression, Adair dropped out …
Red Adair – Firefighter who extinguished 2000 oilwell fires
WEBJan 8, 2023 · Adair wasn’t idle, however; he’d fought a fire on the EKOFISK Bravo oil platforms in the North Sea in 1977. This fire had resisted all attempts to extinguish it and consequently spilled 8.2 million gallons of crude oil, causing a 20-mile slick that covered 200 miles of the British coastline and killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds.
'Hellfighter' Red Adair Dies At 89 - CBS News
WEBMar 20, 2003 · Oil field firefighter Paul N. "Red" Adair, who was instrumental in capping Kuwaiti oil wells set ablaze by Iraq and was immortalized by John Wayne in a movie based on his life, has died at...
Red Adair, Famed for Taming Oil Well Fires, Dies at 89
WEBAug 9, 2004 · Red Adair, the oil field firefighter who was instrumental in capping Kuwaiti oil wells set ablaze by Iraq and whose life was the subject of a movie starring John Wayne, died Saturday in a...
Biography - Red Adair, 1915-2004: He Put Out Dangerous Oil and Natural ...
WEBActor John Wayne played an oil well firefighter from Houston, Texas whose life was similar to Adair's. Adair served as an advisor to Wayne while the film was being made. The two men became close friends.
Red Adair, 89, Conqueror of Oil Well Fires - The New York Times
WEBAug 10, 2004 · Red Adair, an indefatigable conqueror of ravenous fires in oil and gas wells on land and sea around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in his native Houston, his daughter, Robyn, announced....
Paul Neal ‘Red’ Adair, 89; Hero of the Oil Fires
WEBAug 9, 2004 · Paul Neal “Red” Adair, the feisty, fearless Texan who forged a legend capping runaway oil well gushers and battling their raging fires, has died. He was 89.
Adair, Paul Neal [Red] (1915–2004) - TSHA
WEBSep 25, 2007 · One of Red's most famous designs was the semi-submersible firefighting vessel, used to fight offshore oil well fires. Red designed several ships for oil companies around the world, many of which are still in use today. Still of John Wayne starring as Red Adair in Hellfighters (1968).