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 ...

Writing the story of Red Adair’s life took three years of Philip Singerman’s. Now comes the payoff. A hardback edition of An American Hero, Singerman’s authorized biography of the celebrated oil well ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than three decades ago, when Philip Anschutz called legendary oil firefighter Paul N. “Red” Adair – who died Saturday at age 89 – the resulting deal may well have saved Anschutz from a plunge ...

Paul N. “Red” Adair, a world-renowned oil-well firefighter who revolutionized the science of capping exploding and burning wells, has died, his daughter said. He was 89. Adair, who boasted that none ...

RED ADAIR, who died last week aged 89, was the world's most experienced and best known oil well fireman, credited with tackling more than 2,000 incidents both on land and offshore. A craggy Texan who ...

Oil field firefighter Paul "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 89.

AS HE flew into Kuwait in March 1991, Red Adair could see nothing. The sky was filled with black smoke to a height of 15,000 feet, and it was impossible to tell what was north, south, east or west.