Paul Neal “Red” Adair (June 18, 1915 – August 7, 2004) was a renowned American oil well firefighter. He became world famous as an innovator in the highly specialized and extremely hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping blazing, erupting oil wells, both land-based and offshore. Red Adair gained global fame in 1962, when he tackled a fire at a gas field in the Sahara nicknamed the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter, a 450-foot pillar of flame. At age 75, Adair took part in extinguishing the oil well fires in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops after the Gulf War in 1991.
Red seems too tough and cantankerous to be a mormon. We’re pretty sure his heart was pumping pure testosterone through his veins. And he once joked that the devil was preparing an air conditioned home for him in hell, to insure that he didn’t try to put out the fires. So, we’re not sure he even needs a place in mormon heaven.
Paul Neal Adair
Male
Event(s):
Birth:
18 JUN 1915 Of, Houston, Harris, Texas
Christening:
Death:
07 AUG 2004 Of, Bellville, Austin, Texas
Burial:
LDS Ordinances:
Baptism:
26 JUL 2008 REXBU
Endowment:
01 AUG 2008 CRIVE
Sealing to Parents:
06 AUG 2008 CRIVE
Charles E. Adair / Mrs. Mary E. Adair
