ISBN: 0964070618

[SR: 2586925], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780964070615], Cock a Hoop Pub, Cock a Hoop Pub, Book, [PU: Cock a Hoop Pub], Cock a Hoop Pub, The following scenes briefly describe some of the firefig… Mehr…

[SR: 2586925], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780964070615], Cock a Hoop Pub, Cock a Hoop Pub, Book, [PU: Cock a Hoop Pub], Cock a Hoop Pub, The following scenes briefly describe some of the firefighting adventures that are detailed in Call Kinley! California, April 29, 1913 - Myron Kinley and his father, Karl, made history in the Taft oil fields near Bakersfield, when Karl became the first man to use nitroglycerin to extinguish an oil well fire. The unprecedented feat came to be known as the "shot heard around the oil world." Romania, 1931 - Never had a fire burned so long and so hard as Romania's Moreni No. 160. A ferocious blaze that flamed for over two years and lit the skies for as far as seventy miles, the Moreni No. 160 had already claimed the lives of fourteen men by the time Romanian oil executives agreed to the innovative approach proposed by maverick firefighter, Myron Kinley. Gladewater, Texas, 1931 - A spark caused by tool friction on the Cole No. 1 turned the well into a howling inferno. Myron Kinley was soon on the job at the Texas disaster site that burned for over 200 hours, consumed over 3,000 barrels of oil, and killed seven men. Iran, 1951 - Without finishing his lunch, Myron Kinley answered an emergency call from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and flew directly to an Iranian battle site some 8,000 miles from his Houston home. The fierce fight under the burning sun of the Persian desert sealed his world fame as an ace firefighter. In 1952, Myron Kinley and his work was immortalized in the film documentary, Rig 20, winner of the 1952 Venice Film Festival., Call Kinley! takes readers on a global adventure as it chronicles Myron Kinley's historic career in the oil patch. Known as the "Grandfather of Oil Well Firefighting," Kinley traveled the world to battle more than 450 oil field fires in virtually every land where oil is produced. Featuring more than sixty photographs, the book paints a vivid picture of how Kinley revolutionized the petroleum industry by using nitroglycerin to fight well fires. Today his techniques are still used by firefighters in oil fields around the world, and were the basis for the firefighting strategies used to extinguish the flaming wells of Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. Myron Kinley's contributions to firefighting and the petroleum industry have been memorialized in Rig 20, winner of the 1952 Venice Film Festival, and in countless newspaper and journal articles ranging from New York Times and Time Magazine, to Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Weekly Reader. Myron Kinley received numerous international awards and citations and, in 1960, was conferred a member of the Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan., 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 2327, Arts & Literature, 2365, Ethnic & National, 300960, Family & Childhood, 2376, Historical, 2396, Leaders & Notable People, 3048891, Memoirs, 916928, People, A-Z, 2419, Professionals & Academics, 2429, Reference & Collections, 1043842, Regional Canada, 2430, Regional U.S., 2437, Specific Groups, 2446, Sports & Outdoors, 300961, Travel, 11314, True Accounts, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10129, Contemporary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 0964070618

Call Kinley! takes readers on a global adventure as it chronicles Myron Kinley's historic career in the oil patch. Known as the "Grandfather of Oil Well Firefighting," Kinley traveled … Mehr…

Call Kinley! takes readers on a global adventure as it chronicles Myron Kinley's historic career in the oil patch. Known as the "Grandfather of Oil Well Firefighting," Kinley traveled the world to battle more than 450 oil field fires in virtually every land where oil is produced. Featuring more than sixty photographs, the book paints a vivid picture of how Kinley revolutionized the petroleum industry by using nitroglycerin to fight well fires. Today his techniques are still used by firefighters in oil fields around the world, and were the basis for the firefighting strategies used to extinguish the flaming wells of Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. Myron Kinley's contributions to firefighting and the petroleum industry have been memorialized in Rig 20, winner of the 1952 Venice Film Festival, and in countless newspaper and journal articles ranging from New York Times and Time Magazine, to Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Weekly Reader. Myron Kinley received numerous international awards and citations and, in 1960, was conferred a member of the Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan. biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,contemporary,literature and fiction Biographies, Cock a Hoop Pub<

ISBN: 0964070618

Call Kinley! takes readers on a global adventure as it chronicles Myron Kinley's historic career in the oil patch. Known as the "Grandfather of Oil Well Firefighting," Kinley traveled … Mehr…

Call Kinley! takes readers on a global adventure as it chronicles Myron Kinley's historic career in the oil patch. Known as the "Grandfather of Oil Well Firefighting," Kinley traveled the world to battle more than 450 oil field fires in virtually every land where oil is produced. Featuring more than sixty photographs, the book paints a vivid picture of how Kinley revolutionized the petroleum industry by using nitroglycerin to fight well fires. Today his techniques are still used by firefighters in oil fields around the world, and were the basis for the firefighting strategies used to extinguish the flaming wells of Kuwait following the Persian Gulf War. Myron Kinley's contributions to firefighting and the petroleum industry have been memorialized in Rig 20, winner of the 1952 Venice Film Festival, and in countless newspaper and journal articles ranging from New York Times and Time Magazine, to Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, and Weekly Reader. Myron Kinley received numerous international awards and citations and, in 1960, was conferred a member of the Fifth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan. biographies,contemporary,literature and fiction Biographies, Cock a Hoop Pub<