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Firefighters use explosives to put out the Devil's Cigarette Lighter well fire - April 28th, 1962

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On this day in 1962, armed with nearly 800 pounds of explosives, a team of firefighters led by Red Adair extinguished a massive natural gas well fire in the Sahara Desert.

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