The World - News from July 24, 1988
Workers led by Texas oil firefighter Paul (Red) Adair controlled five fires on a North Sea oil platform where 167 people died in an explosion and fire July 6, a spokesman for Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. said. Two more fires continued burning on the ravaged Piper Alpha platform, 120 miles off the coast of Scotland, according to John Brading, a spokesman for Occidental, which operates the platform. He said Adair’s team had plugged three wellheads and controlled fires in two others.
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