Myron M. Kinley

Myron M. Kinley (also known as the " Grandfather of Oil Well Fire Fighting" ) ( born July 4, 1896 in Pasadena, California, USA, † May 12, 1978 ) was an American Fireman.

He was a pioneer in the field of modern fire fighting to oil drilling ( " wild well control" ) and was mentor for numerous other his successor "Fire Fighter" as Paul Neal Adair ( "Red" Adair ), "Boots" Hansen, " Coots " Matthews. Many still used in the oil industry downhole tools go back to his inventions. In 1913 he founded the company " Kinley Cooperation". A total of 50 years, fighting fires around the world on oil drilling Kinley. The craft of deletion taught him his father Karl Kinley, who has also worked in the oil field and the first a burning oil well put out with nitroglycerin.

1952 his life and his work in the documentary was " Rig 20", winner of the Film Festival in Venice appreciated.

His wife Jessie ( born Dearing, on April 12, 1914 in Blair, Oklahoma (USA), died on May 23, 1997) was also active in the oil industry and is regarded as a pioneer in the field of horizontal drilling. In 1955 she published the book "Call Kinley " in which she writes about the professional adventure of her husband Myron.