The oil wells of Southern Iraq were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi forces at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Traveling with the general in charge of fighting the fires, Mackenzie examines how the fires were started and what the U.S. Army was doing to bring them under control and avert a repeat of the 1991 environmental disaster in which Saddam Hussein's troops sabotaged the entire oil fields of Kuwait.

Produced for National Geographic Television and Film, the report aired in its entirety on CNBC.