HOUSTON (AP) -- 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 ...

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 ...

His family said he died Saturday night at a Houston hospital.Adair founded Red Adair Company, Incorporated, in 1959. He revolutionized the science of putting out exploding and burning oil well fires, ...

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 -- Oil field firefighter Paul N. "Red" Adair, 89, 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, died Aug ...

World-renowned oil well firefighter and industry legend Paul ""Red"" Adair died on 7 August in Houston. He was 89. For an industry some times disparaged for harming the environment and other presumed ...

Famed oil well firefighter Paul N. ``Red'' Adair was remembered Tuesday as ``a common man who did extraordinary things.'' HOUSTON (AP) -- Famed oil well firefighter Paul N. ``Red'' Adair was ...

Paul Neal ("Red") Adair, who forged a legend capping runaway oil gushers and battling their raging fires, died on Saturday in a Houston hospital. He was 89. For Mr Adair, it all began one chilly ...

Red Adair had been fighting oil-well fires for more than half a century when he got his biggest and best-known assignment: helping to put out the hundreds of fires set in oil wells throughout Kuwait ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. A few months later, a fire broke out at another well Adair was ...

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 age 89.