In 1991, during the end Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein was on the verge of losing. Saddam's army was being pushed out of Kuwaiti,but Saddam did not want to give up so easily. Saddam ordered his men to go into Kuwaiti and blow up around 700 oil wells. The fires were so fierce that firefighters were not able stop the fires. There was also land mines found next to the oil wells that made turning off the oil wells much harder. The oil fires lasted for ten months and did 1.5 billion dollars of damage to Kuwaiti, and Kuwaiti lost 5 million barrels of oil each day from the fires. Animals also lost their lives from the oily mist.
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