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 ...

HOUSTON — E.O. “Coots” Matthews, a famed oil well firefighter and founding partner of Houston-based Boots & Coots — a company legendary for putting out some of the world's most spectacular fires — has ...

Iraqi forces set fire to over seven hundred Kuwaiti oil wells during the last Gulf War, leaving a dangerous mess for allied forces to face. Companies like Red Adair's Wild Well Control, Safety Boss, ...

This is like the one in the movie, The Hell Fighters," said Gibbs. John Wayne played Red Adair in the 1969 classic. The Houston native and pioneer in industrial fire fighting, died earlier this month.

SOUTH RUMAILA OILFIELD, Iraq -- His trademark red overalls wilting in the heat, Brian Krause kicked the desert dust near one of the two oil fires still blazing away in Iraq's richest oil field. Krause ...

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 ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. Piper Alpha was a large, fixed production platform operated by ...