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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Despite having the most dangerous of occupations, the former Clear Lake resident died Saturday of natural causes in a Houston hospital - an 89-year-old great-grandfather. Funeral services were held ...

The son of an Irish immigrant blacksmith born in Houston Texas. An upbringing so poor, he had to drop out of high school to support his family. A WW2 vet and world-renowned specialist 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 ...

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 ...