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Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991
Manage episode 306963850 series 1301442
After the end of the Gulf War in 1991, retreating Iraqi forces set light to oil wells in the desert. Specialist firefighters were drafted in by the Kuwaiti government to help put them out. Simon Watts spoke to one of those firefighters, Richard Hatteberg, in 2010.
This is a rebroadcast.
Photo: an oil fire in Kuwait. March 1991. Credit:Getty Images.
2138 episodes
Manage episode 306963850 series 1301442
After the end of the Gulf War in 1991, retreating Iraqi forces set light to oil wells in the desert. Specialist firefighters were drafted in by the Kuwaiti government to help put them out. Simon Watts spoke to one of those firefighters, Richard Hatteberg, in 2010.
This is a rebroadcast.
Photo: an oil fire in Kuwait. March 1991. Credit:Getty Images.
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