Red Adair Says He May Pull Out...

Red Adair Says He May Pull Out of Kuwait: The legendary oil well firefighter, frustrated by what he called “organized confusion” in Kuwait, said he may pull his men off the job of capping the war-torn country’s burning oil wells. In impromptu remarks to a firefighting exposition in Houston, the 78-year-old Texan said his men were not getting the support they needed to perform their jobs. Adair blasted the Kuwaiti government for failure to provide enough equipment or materials--water, for example--to cap the 540 wells left burning by Iraqi explosives and allied bombs. The Kuwaitis are not moving quickly because there is no clear chain of command to make decisions, Adair said. “They need to put one or two people in charge,” he said. Adair’s firefighters arrived in Kuwait shortly after the Persian Gulf War ended.