Red Adair earned a larger-than-life, macho image while making a career fighting oil well fires. But to a Lawrence woman and her daughter, he was simply a “fine gentleman.” “He was a dear friend to my ...

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 the age of ...

Red Adair wasn't one to brag about his work, but it wasn't hard to see how it could become the stuff of legend. The oil field firefighter was also a showman, the likes of which are unlikely to be seen ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- Famed oil well firefighter Paul N. ``Red'' Adair was remembered Tuesday as ``a common man who did extraordinary things.'' ``Red is truly one of a kind,'' longtime friend and Houston ...

Red Adair, the man oil companies turned to to cap their oil-well fires when few in the world could do it, was described Sunday as brave and someone who played as hard as he worked. Houston's oil-well ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. Well fires have been around almost as long as wells. Whether ...

Paul N. "Red" Adair was an oil industry legend long before his death at 89 on Aug. 7 and one of the few people in this business popular enough to be the subject of a joke. According to the old joke, a ...

A loud-mouthed Texan died, and St. Peter decided to put him in his place. He pointed straight down, to where the fires of hell were raging. “You got anything like that in Texas?” he asked the man.

Paul "Red" Adair, whose exploits fighting oil well fires around the globe made him a household name, has died in Houston, Texas, aged 89. His daughter Robyn told AP news agency that her father had ...

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