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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 ...
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The Granite Mountain Hotshots, also known as the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew, was a tight-knit team of wildland firefighters within the Prescott (Arizona) Fire Department. The crew was originally started in 2002 as a fuels mitigation crew, but transitioned to a hand crew (Type 2 I/A) in 2004, and ultimately to a hotshot crew in 2008. ...
Lightning ignited the Yarnell Hill Fire high on a ridge west of Yarnell, Arizona, on June 28, 2013. The fire fell under the jurisdiction of the Arizona State Forestry Division. According to the Yarnell Hill Fire Serious Accident Investigation report, the Yarnell Hill area had not experienced wildfire in over 45 years. It was primed to burn because ...
The State of Arizona convened an accident investigation team on July 3, 2013, to review the conditions and events leading to the circumstances of the entrapment and deaths of 19 members of Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew. The investigation team was led by Jim Karels, the state forester for the Florida Forest Service. According to the Ariz...
Multiple memorial services were held for the fallen firefighters, including private services for individual members. A public memorial service was held in Prescott Valley on July 2, 2013. And on July 9, then-Vice President Joe Biden spoke at a memorial service in Prescott. Thousands attended both memorial services, including representatives from mo...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park was dedicated in 2016 as a place to remember the 19 fallen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. The State Park website details the formation of the Park. On June 30, 2015 – 2 years after the deaths of the hotshots – Arizona State Parks purchased the 320-acre plot of land that was the site of the 20...
Much has been discussed and debated about the movements of the Granite Mountain Hotshots on June 30, 2013. The fact that there is such a large lapse of communication has led fire service to opine about their decision-making and whether the tragedy could have been prevented. While we will never know exactly how the tragedy unfolded, there is still r...
McDonough authored the 2017 book “Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice.”Fernanda Santos, who covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times, penned the 2017 book “The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.”Kyle Dickman wrote “On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It,”in 2015.- Andrew Ashcraft, 29. Andrew Sterling Ashcraft was born on February 15, 1984, to parents Deborah Pfingston and Thomas Ashcraft in Orange, California. At the age of five, Andrew moved to Prescott with his family, where he spent the next 24 years of his life with his brother, Thomas James (T.J.)
- Robert Caldwell, 23. “I’d rather die in my boots than live in a suit.” Robert Caldwell lived by these words and was always a man true to his word. He died with honor, with his brothers, in the line of duty with his boots tight on his feet.
- Travis Carter, 31. Travis Carter was born on August 7, 1982, in Prescott, Arizona, to Tripp Carter and Glenna Eckel. As a little boy, he loved to work on the Necktie Ranch in Walnut Grove with his dad, Trip Carter, and grandpa, Arden Carter.
- Dustin DeFord, 24. Dustin James DeFord, 24, was born December 13, 1988, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Steve and Celeste (Crago) DeFord. Dustin joined brothers Brandon, Darren, Jonathan, and Ryan.
Jun 26, 2023 · The Granite Mountain Hotshots were members of a wildland firefighting crew based out of the Prescott Fire Department. The group began as a fuels management crew in 2001 whose job it was...
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- Southern Arizona Reporter
Jun 30, 2015 · According to a history of the Granite Mountain hotshots on the Prescott website, by 2004, the crew had become a federally rated Type II hand crew.
- Richard Ruelas
Jun 24, 2018 · 1:23. YARNELL — Lee and Diane Helm own a ranch 600 yards from where 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots died in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013. The couple hunkered down inside their house...
Jun 30, 2017 · A group of men known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots – a tight-knit team of experts trained to fight out-of-control wildfires – died on June 30, 2013 while battling the Yarnell Hill fire ...
