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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: greenspirit who wrote (10834)7/8/1997 3:59:00 AM
From: ZinMaster   of 108807
 
The Fires of Kuwait....

Had the fires left behind by Saddam Hussein's troops continued to burn, the environmental effects would have been much more severe. Initial estimates indicated that it would take years to put out all the fires and cap the wells. They weren't counting on Red Adair's firefighting teams. Those guys kicked some major flaming butt. They'd back up a couple of liquid nitrogen tankers to the burning well and dowse it fat streams of the LN2 to cool the fuel and suffocate the flames. Then they clamped these really big brass valves over the broken pipe and finally, shut the valve. In a few months, all the fires were out and the wells capped.

Yes, CNN overdramatized the situation, but Red Adair's teams scaled up oilwell firefighting to magnitude that no one had imagined before. And Kuwait was willing to pay them to work overtime.

-zm
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