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The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department. Just one of the hotshots on the crew survived (Brendan Mcdonough)—he was posted as a lookout on the ...
PHOENIX (AP) -- It was the worst loss of life for U.S. wildland firefighters in eight decades, a tragedy that killed 19 members of a Hotshot crew during an out-of-control inferno in a brush-choked ...
Only the Brave, originally titled Granite Mountain and subtitled as The True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots in previews, is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski, and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the GQ article "No Exit" by Sean Flynn. [1]
Five other firefighters, three smokejumpers and two helitack firefighters, also died in the incident. [6] On June 30, 2013, nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots perished in the Yarnell Hill Fire near Yarnell, Arizona. Nineteen of the twenty members of the crew were killed when their escape route was cut off by an approaching fire.
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park is a state park near Yarnell, Arizona, created to memorialize the nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who died there on June 30, 2013, while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. The park opened on November 30, 2016, and had over 18,000 visitors in its first year.
Western Refining Employees Support Firefighters' Families PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Phoenix-area employees of Western Refining, Inc. (NYS: WNR) recently raised $108,058 to provide assistance for ...
Hotshots are not considered firefighters. They are what is called “forestry technicians,” employed by the Forest Service and other federal, state and county agencies, and as such are paid ...
The Arizona Hotshots were a professional ... firefighters and not the wildland ... 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire in ...