Carl Sagan lost all credibility with me when he stated that the Kuwait oil well fires would burn for a thousand years. Boots and Coots and a bunch of ol boys put them out in 10 months.
That’s because Americans do the impossible. Not anymore though.
Since Sagan died in 1996, when were the Kuwait oil fires you mentioned?
It was actually a Canadian company named Fireboss who extinguished 2/3 , maybe 3/4 of the burning wellheads.
They used high capacity firefighting pumpers and hoses instead of traditional piping to speed up water supply, for one thing.
I've got a VHS documentary somewhere and am going to search Youtube now.