RED ADAIR: HELLRAISER

RED ADAIR



I never was a huge John Wayne fan, but one of the best movies I saw of his was the movie "Hellraisers", the story of Red Adair. Red Adair, spent his life after WWII puting out fires most people would never want to be close to, oil well fires known as "Blow outs". He perfected his demolitions that he learned in the army in deveveloped shaped charges, which allowed him to control the blast and blow out fires like blowing out a candle. Althought he was in his 70s after Desert Storm, when the Iraqis set Kuwaiti oil fields on fire, his crew managed to do in 9 months what they were told would take 5 yrs.

Red Adair died today at the age of 89.