FEARLESS ENCOUNTERS

FEARLESS ENCOUNTERS
A new documentary film ,Honoring the Kuwaiti Oil Firefighting team. The film was never edited or released until 2011. Shot 20 years ago by the Kuwaiti filmmaker, Talal Showaish-Salem , who spent 6 weeks with the team ,in the horrific inferno . Telling the inside untold story of the Kuwaiti oil firefighter's heroic Fearless Encounters . when the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein was forced out of Kuwait by the world Coalition forces in February 1991, out of spite and hatred he ordered his defeated retreating army to Blow up all of Kuwait's Oil wells. More than 650 Oil wells ,where on fire for 8 months, burning on average 6 million Barrels of Oil P/Day. In total, more than 1 Billion Barrels of Crude oil was burnt. The Kuwaiti firefighting team started 180 days after the main 4 world famous, American and Canadian oil firefighting teams. the Kuwaiti Team overwhelmed the world by their unmatched speed in killing the fiercest oil well fires, reaching temperatures of 2000C . Against all bets, the Kuwaitis, managed to Extinguish the biggest well in Kuwait BG160, which was burning 60,000 Barrels of oil per day. Their speed and relentless enthusiasm, they ignited the competitive spirit amongst all the other firefighting teams, which lead to extinguishing all the fires in 7 months only, compared to the initial world expert predictions of 5 years.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• oil fires
• fires of kuwait
• kuwaiti firefighters
• kwwk
• saddam
• enviromental disaster
• war
• gulf war
• talal showaish
• oil lakes
• iraqi invasion
• koc
• pollution
• red adair
• documentary

[bulzooz]

mythical work by the fire fighters

spelendid Job by the film makers

thank you all

Abdulkhaleq 

[mmjama74]

Great to watch the real brave firefighters

(KOC-ECC)



[mmjama74]

very brave firefighters and world have to know the great job they did

[Eagle4kw]

Thank you guys, I know my colleagues in the KWWK (Kuwaiti Wild well Killer) will be overwhelmed. Please publish this to all who you know.

Ali H. Asad (KWWK)

[colsky]

THis will be a great watch...very Brave men very brave indeed

[Eagle4kw]

Amazing. Talal will always be the greatest. You made my tears drops.

Ali H. Asad

[IzetteM]

I can't wait to hear about the fire fighters reactions when they see this!