Red Adair
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Red Adair was a legendary American oil well firefighter renowned worldwide for his daring and innovative work in controlling and extinguishing massive oil and gas well blowouts.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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company ⓘ firefighter ⓘ human ⓘ oil well firefighter ⓘ |
| activeYears | 1940s–1990s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
NERFINISHED
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Officier of the Légion d'honneur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateFounded | 1959 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-06-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-08-07 ⓘ |
| employer | Red Adair Company, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Adair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fire protection
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oil well firefighting ⓘ |
| founded | Red Adair Company, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | legendary oil well firefighter ⓘ |
| hasSignatureColor | red ⓘ |
| industry | oil well firefighting ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | film "Hellfighters" (1968) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative techniques in oil and gas well blowout control
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leading large-scale international oil well firefighting operations ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| nickname | Red NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering modern blowout control methods
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use of explosives to snuff oil well fires ⓘ |
| notableWork |
control of Kuwaiti oil well fires after the 1991 Gulf War
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control of the 1962 Gassi Touil gas field fire in Algeria ⓘ control of the 1977 Ekofisk Bravo blowout in the North Sea ⓘ control of the 1988 Piper Alpha platform fires in the North Sea ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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oil well firefighter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Wayne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of Red Adair Company, Inc. ⓘ |
| residence | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedAt | Myron Kinley Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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