Every fire department in Chile is staffed by volunteer firefighters, from the smallest towns to major cities such as Santiago and Valparaiso. It's been that way since the first corps of "bomberos" was organized in Valparaiso in 1851, making Chile possibly the only nation in the world with an entirely volunteer fire service. By comparison, 65% of the 1.056 million firefighters in the United States are volunteers. In Germany, 95% of the country's 995,000 million firefighters are volunteers.

Red Adair (1915-2004) was famous for fighting fires in what type of location?

A) Battleships

B) Forests

C) Oil fields

D) Skyscrapers

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