【美国人物志】保罗•尼尔•阿代尔 (2/11)

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保罗•尼尔•阿代尔Red Adair——著名的消防员，行走于全世界，每每出现在如地狱一般炎热的火场，去扑灭熊熊燃烧的大火。他的公司在伊拉克军队被击退时,曾奉召扑灭科威特的油田大火,他对这个重要的真理可是一点也不陌生。他是这样说的:人生不是把事情做好,而是努力把事情做好。

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World War Two
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Houston
Myron KinleyDuring World War Two, Adair served on a trained army team that removed and destroyed bombs. After the war, he returned to Houston and took a job with Myron Kinley. At the time, Kinley was the leader in putting out fires in oil wells. Red Adair worked with Myron Kinley for 14 years. But in 1959, Adair started his own company.
During his 36 years in business, Red Adair and his crews battled more than 2,000 fires all over the world. Some were on land. Others were on ocean oil-drilling structures. Some fires were in burning oil wells. Others were in natural gas wells.