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Fires of Kuwait
1992 · Film · documentary · 36 min
Directed by David Douglas
After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fires for months. They had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution. The different teams developed different techniques of extinguishing the fires. Man's emergency creativity can be seen at it's best.
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Would highly recommend watching Fires of Kuwait - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2deGanpWvEo They show this and other technologies developed by the different countries involved in the firefighting efforts. Also astounding videography
Fires of Kuwait. IMAX film. Highly recommended. Fascinating all the methods they used to extinguish the oil well fires that Saddam Hussein ordered to be set on fire.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fires_of_Kuwait
Those firefighters were terrific. There's a cool short documentary on them called Fires of Kuwait, all available on Youtube in case anyone wants to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L77BSBKvMJk
My dad was over there, and I've been told that he appears a couple of times in the background of the 'Fires of Kuwait' documentary, although I never could pick him out.
He took this photo, and others that are lost in storage somewhere: http://i.imgur.com/rKlSCcw.jpg
I don't have negatives, or any copies of other pictures, and I've never gotten around to finding a place to do large-format scanning to digitize it properly.
Amazing photos. There's a good documentary on this too called Fires of Kuwait. The firefighting companies like Red Adair, Boot and Coots, and Safety Boss did a really impressive job and learned a lot about extinguishing fires in the process.