When E.O. “Coots” Matthews died last month at age 86, the legendary killer of oil well fires had altered landscapes all over the globe. But he was also one of the most influential public faces that ...

Edward Owen Matthews, better known to the world as "Coots," one-half of the oil well firefighting team of Boots and Coots, passed away peacefully on March 31, 2010 in the company of his loving family.

HOUSTON — E.O. “Coots” Matthews, a famed oil well firefighter and founding partner of Houston-based Boots & Coots — a company legendary for putting out some of the world's most spectacular fires — has ...

Texas well-control outfit Boots & Coots said Edward “Coots” Matthews, one of the company’s founders and a legendary well firefighter, had died at the age of 86. Boots & Coots said Matthews died ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. A few months later, a fire broke out at another well Adair was ...

Red Adair, Asger "Boots" Hansen and Ed "Coots" Matthews played a dominant role in fighting oil and natural gas well fires for decades. Other methods, including explosives and the drilling of relief ...