Word: kinley
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...recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field ... would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century ... To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners ... have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race...
...world with his usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired the 1968 John Wayne film Hellfighters...