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Nineteen firefighters from the Chandler Fire Department became dads last year. The department shared sweet images of the fathers with their babies on Instagram. It hopes to continue expanding the ...
Yarnell also killed more firefighters than any incident since the September 11 attacks. The Yarnell Hill Fire is the sixth-deadliest American firefighter disaster in history, the deadliest wildfire ever in the state of Arizona, and (at least until 2014) was "the most-publicized event in wildland firefighting history". [3] [4]
The Phoenix-based FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team Arizona Task Force 1 (or AZ-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force sponsored by the Phoenix Fire Department. [7] AZ-TF1 is one of 28 such FEMA US&R Rescue Teams with numerous disaster response capabilities such as search and rescue, hazardous material detection and decontamination ...
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.
The Arizona State Forestry said fire officials were “making progress” on the Copper Canyon Fire more than a day after it began near Globe, a city about 87 miles east of Phoenix.
Arizona Fire and Medical Authority, often referred to as AFMA, is a fire authority in Maricopa County, Arizona.Comprising three fire districts that came together to form a Fire and Medical Authority, AFMA provides fire protection and emergency medical services to approximately 75,000 people in the communities of Sun City West, Buckeye, Tonopah, Sun Lakes, and Wittmann. [3]
Founded in 1885, it is the oldest fire department in the state of Arizona. [1] With a coverage area of 41.5 square miles (107 km 2) and serving a population of 39,843, the PFD consists of 92 career personnel, split among five fire stations. [1]
A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire.. In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-25 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad.