Red Adair has died aged 89. His exploits fighting oil well fires around the globe made him a household name from Kuwait to Texas. John Wayne immortalised Adair in the film Hellfighters. In the final ...

He was known as the “king of oil field firefighters” years before the most famous hellfighter of all — Red Adair — came ... 18 and found the renowned firefighter, naked, his head crushed ...