Safety Boss is an oil-well-fire-fighting company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Motto: Heart of the new west Area: 712. ... Motto: Fortis et Liber (Strong and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ralph Klein (PC) Area 661,848 km² (6th) - Land 642,317 km² - Water 19,531 km² (2. ...
The company and its CEO, Mike Miller, became most famous by becoming the number one fire-fighting company in Kuwait after the first Gulf War in 1991. The company doused 180 out of the 600 fires, more than any other company there. Safety Boss set the rapid pace that had to be matched by other companies in Kuwait, and as a result, the fires were out within nine months, instead of the many years that was initially given as the earliest possible date to put out the fires.
The last fire to be put out was set up by Safety Boss to be doused by the push of a button by the Emir of Kuwait.
The technology that allowed Safety Boss to take the lead was the Smokey fire truck, developed in 1983 after an especially stubborn and damaging oil fire in Alberta.
It was then that Miller and his renowned team of SafetyBoss oilfield firefighters prepared to save a trio of petroleum wells in the warring countries\' disputed border area that had been rigged with explosives.
A SafetyBoss contract to tame the raging fires could be worth $50 million, figures Miller, who has spoken by phone to U.S. defence officials recently, offering them expert advice.
To counter these hazards, SafetyBoss has fine-tuned decontamination equipment that was kept on hand by local authorities during last year\'s G-8 Summit in Kananaskis.
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