During his thirty-six years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than two thousand fires all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Adair's success with the "Devil's Cigarette Lighter" and earlier well fires captured the imagination of the American film industry.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

So the fires to make containers from volcanic clay must be hotter than those used for non-volcanic clay.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

But as if it depended upon that hot-blooded princess, her soul at a white heat under the fires of sadness and jealousy.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

He and his crews were called in to help put out fires set by the Iraqi army as it fled from coalition forces.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

It fires balls that burst and release a chili solution when they hit the elephant's skin.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

This is because oil well fires are extinguished,or put out, at the wellhead just above ground.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Adair also developed special equipment made of bronze metal to help extinguish oil well fires.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

None of his workers were ever killed while putting out oil well or gas fires.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

But there was the danger not just of attacks but also floods,fires,winds and storms.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The fires may be as hot as one thousand four hundred degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

He was famous for putting out dangerous oil well fires around the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

In the dry season these dead plants can increase the danger of fires.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

They fight fires that crews cannot reach quickly or easily from the ground.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Later,fire companies were organized with men who were trained to fight fires.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Their engines were silent. The Confederates,however, had built fires along the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

The fires got out of control. Many buildings burned to the ground.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Red Adair had to stop the fires and cap the wells.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The constant fires burned everything down to the bare rock base.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Native Americans used them to build fires to dry their food.

VOA: special.2009.07.20