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Growing up during the Great Depression, Red Adair dropped out of high school to work and help his family make ends meet. He bounced through several jobs before joining the Army for WWII, where he found himself working in bomb disposal. Something about explosions appealed to this young man, and after the war he went to work for Myron Kinley, a world-famous freelance firefighter who specialized in the especially dangerous work of putting out oil well fires.
After more than a decade in Kinley's employ, Adair quit and started his own firefighting business, the Red Adair Company. A 1962 fire called the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" made him famous. It had burned in the Sahara Desert for six months, consuming half-a-million cubic feet of gas every day. Adair and his crew extinguished that fire, and many more, including 117 lit by Saddam Hussein's retreating troops in the 1991 Gulf War. Adair sold the Red Adair Company in 1993, and retired to enjoy a quiet life as a freelance oil firefighting consultant.
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Sorting Political Fact from Fiction at the Republican National ... KCPW, UT - This week, Adair again joined KCPW's Jeff Robinson to talk about the claims and attacks coming from the Republicans in St. Paul, along with one prominent ... |
High school marching bands get ready Kentucky.com, KY - The 94-member Adair County band is using images of sorcery for its program Supernatural. "Our color guard is going to be in uniforms that evoke images such ... |
St. Cloud warden Adair chosen for 2008 Athena Award St. Cloud Times, MN - Adair began her corrections career in 1977 at the women’s prison in Shakopee. Born in St. Paul, Adair attended St. Cloud State University before receiving ... |
June A. Zingery Palladium-Item, IN - Visitation for June Adair Zingery will be from noon-1 pm Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, at Doan & Mills Funeral Home, 790 National Road W., Richmond. ... |
Adair County man acquitted in murder case Muskogee Daily Phoenix, OK - The Adair County jury did, however, convict Christopher Paul Dempsey, 24, of manufacturing methamphetamine. According to the Adair County Court Clerk’s ... Jury splits verdict on meth lab death |
Adair's back Londonderry Today, UK - Having over a decade with the Drumahoe club before link-up with ex-boss Paul Kee at Limavady United, the Team Attendant has joined John Gregg's back-room ... |
Adair opens scoring in Loughgall success Portadown Today, UK - LOUGHGALL: Marc Robinson, Andy Smith, Bryan Pentland, Neil Alderdice, Alan Murphy, Andy Hamilton, Ryan Moffatt, David Hawthorne, Paul Baron, Brian Adair, ... |
Business Briefs Marshall News Messenger, TX - Stacey D. Adair, CIC, of Brownrigg Insurance Agency, Inc., was recently recognized for professional leadership and advanced knowledge by the Society of ... |
Basic Biittner: A legend passes Chronicle Times, IA - After he graduated from Cedar Falls, Paul went on to teach and coach at Spencer, Adair and Correctionville. He married one of the Correctionville teachers, ... |
The Great and the Good The Claremont Institute, CA - This chapter begins with a consideration of Douglass Adair's celebrated essay "Fame and the Founding Fathers," which Faulkner evidently admires. ... |
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