Jan. 17, 1994: Retiring:Paul Neal ("Red") Adair TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994 Jan. 17, 1994 Genetics:The Future Is Now
Time Magazine MILESTONES, Page 19

RETIRING. PAUL NEAL ("Red") ADAIR, 78, legendary fighter of oil well fires; in Houston. After extinguishing 2,000 fires over 35 years--an average of more than one a week, including the blazing oil wells of post-Gulf War Kuwait--Adair has sold his business to Louisiana's Global Industries. The price? "I can't count that high."