Only one fire still burning in Iraq

by The Associated Press

Firefighters have extinguished another fire in the Rumeila South oil field, leaving a single blaze still to tackle. After collecting water in a manmade lagoon, a U.S. team from Boots & Coots International Well Control succeeded in putting out a fire at one of the wells sabotaged by retreating Iraqis, Kuwait's top firefighter Aisa Bouyabes said April 8. The Kuwaiti team has re-excavated its own lagoon and was filling it with water before attacking a different fire at a nearby well head.

U.S. and British forces have secured 900 out of 1,000 wells in oil fields in southern Iraq, the U.S. military central command in Doha, Qatar, said Tuesday. No oil is being exported from southern Iraq.

Baghdad still controls wells in the North, and industry sources said that crude from oil fields in northern Iraq continued flowing in small amounts through a pipeline to the port of Ceyhan, Turkey.