There was an expert in Texas,Red Adair, who was tasked to put the fires out,he did.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/business/the-job-of-fighting-kuwait-s-infernos.html Red Adair, president of the firefighting company that bears his name, said he had ordered special engines on new equipment to battle the desert blazes, each with enough radiator capacity to hold twice the usual volumes of water. The special equipment is made by United Engines Inc. in Oklahoma City, which is adding a second shift of welders and mechanics to speed delivery to the Persian Gulf. 'A Serious Situation'
Mr. Adair, who is 75 years old, said he had worked on more than 2,500 oil well fires in 50 years, but nothing compared with the spectacle in Kuwait. "It is a serious situation over there," he said. His company is one of a handful that specialize in halting oilwell fires and blowouts, and was one of five companies hired by the Kuwait Petroleum Company this week to help battle the fires.
Several years later the US was still considered infidels in a poll taken in Kuwait.
Just goes to show we don't belong in the mid east unless its in an advisory capacity.
Most of this was fake news propagated by the PR firm (Hill & Knowlton) hired by the Kuwaiti Royal family in exile in Jeddah. There were also stories of newborn infants being killed yanking them from incubators. It was a well-organized propaganda effort. I still have a few "Free Kuwait" tee shirts. The Iraqi troops did kill and kidnap Kuwaitis. Mostly, they were involved in looting Kuwaiti homes. Most of the vehicles in the "Mile of Death" were stuffed with loot stolen by Iraqi troops who abandoned the cars. There were not many Iraqi casualties in the "Mile of Death." They had been abandoned before being struck by our aircraft.
There was an expert in Texas,Red Adair, who was tasked to put the fires out,he did.
Something of a myth. I attended a US briefing of our US ambassadors in Saudi and Kuwait about the oil fires. The initial estimate by Adair and his group was that it would take years to put out the oil fires. The Kuwaitis were very unhappy with that estimate and decided to open up competitive bidding to see who could do it the fastest since the Kuwaiti economy is so dependent on oil revenue. A Hungarian group came up with the solution that put out the fires much faster than Adair. They mounted jet aircraft engines on earth movers and literally blew out the fires. It was done in months rather than years.
PS: I don’t know how grateful the Kuwaiti people are to America, but I do know that the Government of Kuwait funded the costs of building a new Embassy building in a prime location and that they paid us close to $16 billion to cover a portion of the costs of our efforts to liberate the country.