Red Adair, A Legend

A tough guy we never seem to see anymore:

"Among Red's and Red Adair Company's historic firsts were extinguishing and underwater wild well, a job on a floating vessel and the first U. S. well to be capped while on fire. Some celebrated fires extinguished by Red and his crew were the CATCO offshore fire in 1959, "The Devil's Cigarette Lighter" in 1962 in the Sahara Desert, the massive 1970 offshore blaze at Bay Marchand, Louisiana, the April 1977 Bravo offshore blowout in the North Sea, the IXTOC #1 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in June 1979 and the Piper Alpha disaster in July 1988."

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<a href="http://www.redadair.com/bio.html">http://www.redadair.com/bio.html</a> Received on Sat Apr 28 14:35:00 2001