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Used to contain the fire and channel the flowing, bubbling oil into reservoirs. then workers dig down through the flames while trying to keep the oil and their equipment cool as they haul out mounds of smoking sludge and earth. gaze through the flames and you can see the fires red hot core. they need to get through all of this to find the head of the well, only then can they determine the extent of the damage and what must be done to close it. workers here say the nature of the job is always cha...

Toxic black filth. the heat coming off this fire is incredible. its melted much of the ground around the well. the air, it is thick and foul. it really tastes terrible. it makes your eyes water. this is the poisonous atmosphere that people in this part of iraq have been breathing in and living with for months. theres now a desperate effort to fix the wells. but the lead engineer tells me its a difficult complex process. he says you cant just put the fire out because that would release vast amoun...

Of deadly fumes. first, earth moving equipment is used to contain the fire and channel the flowing, bubbling oil in oil. then workers dig through the flames trying to keep the oil and equipment cool as they haul out mounds of smoking sludge and earth. gaze through the flames and you can see the fires red hot core. they need to get through all of this to find the head of the well. only then can they determine the extent of the damage and what must be done to close it. workers here say the nature ...